Despair

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This list includes every page or product from UUA.org, UU World magazine, or inSpirit books & gifts that is tagged with Despair.

  • A field in Mongolia of dirt, deeply cut by cracks. The phenomenon, called a “dzud," is a drought in the summer and an extremely cold winter.
    Litany for Those Lost to Climate Change
    From WorshipWeb
    Leader: [if applicable: In addition to our own beloved dead], we take the time to acknowledge all those already lost as the world feels the effects of...
  • a dozen egg cartons piled on a linoleum floor, wth broken eggs spilling out their contents
    All Is Not Well
    From WorshipWeb
    O God who gave us life and death, you hold us in your hands. You cradle us in our need, and you push us into growth. We confess to you that all is not...
  • A speckled egg and leaves inside of a bird's nest
    Invocation for Difficult Times
    From WorshipWeb
    When all around us voices are raised in anger, hatred spilling into the streets and sparking more hatred, sometimes the best we can do is to sink our ha...
  • Prayer for Our Nation
    From WorshipWeb
    God of all known by many names, Holy one. It’s in sorrow that I implore your intercession in removing the darkness that has descended upon this land.
  • Be the Love
    Words of Welcome for a Difficult Morning
    From WorshipWeb
    This welcome was written for a Sunday after a national crisis....
  • six small flat stones stacked on top of each other, among a bed of rocks
    Prayer for Hopelessness
    From WorshipWeb
    The days that come and carry away your spirit, your spark — bow down. Lay your head on the hard earth and let your brokenness join the death that is...
  • All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain
    From WorshipWeb
    All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain... By trying to handle all suffering through willpower, denial, medication, or even therapy, we...
  • © Robert Neubecker
    A dark night journey
    From Ideas
    A dark night of the soul is a time of dormancy, fallowness, waiting, potentiality.
  • A snow-covered poplar bush, with only a few golden leaves
    The Last Leaf
    From WorshipWeb
    Once, many grey autumns ago, I came upon a tree. The tree, a poplar, had dropped all of its leaves but for one, just one. Exactly one leaf remained near...
  • Small green shoots emerge from the snow.
    "Easter Week 1982"
    From WorshipWeb
    The light green shoots of blossoms-to-have-been are out of sight under the drifting snow. Gale force winds are rattling the old house....