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  • Ministerial Conference at Berry Street essay presented by the Rev. Sean Parker Dennison.
    By Kenneth Sutton | June 25, 2015 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Failure, Fear
    Page/Article
  • We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
    Quote | By Martin Luther King, Jr. | June 25, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Failure, Hope, Limitations
    Worship element
  • Dear great lathe of heaven, O foundry of souls, You churning, burning cosmos which has wrought me on the infinite loom of your celestial body. Spinning stars and indifferent stones: hear my prayer. Do not curse me to perish with all my dreams fulfilled....
    Prayer | By Kelly Weisman Asprooth-Jackson | June 18, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Calling, Challenge, Failure, Imagination, Letting Go, Limitations, Success, Vision, Work
    Worship element
  • I have learned some things about life from canoes. I’m not saying I know how to paddle. I have been in canoes twice, and both have been learning experiences. The second time was fun. The first time, a friend and I decided to take one out on a lake. We slid the canoe into the water. She hopped in.
    Meditation | By Meg Barnhouse | May 28, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Arrogance, Challenge, Courage, Direct Experience, Failure, Humility, Letting Go, Limitations, Secular, Work
    Worship element
  • The future health of Unitarian Universalism depends on all of us learning to embrace failure.
    By Peter Morales | May 14, 2015 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Failure, Vision for UUism
    Page/Article
  • A retelling of a story from Cherokee tradition. When the earth was first made, it was very dark, and the animals were afraid. One day Bear said, “I have seen light on the other side of the world, but the people will not share. Perhaps we could steal some for ourselves.” The others thought this...
    Story | May 13, 2015 | For Multigenerational | From Miracles
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Awe, Challenge, Community, Courage, Creativity, Failure, Indigenous American, Interdependence, Limitations, Summer Solstice, Teamwork
    Curriculum page
  • “The beauty of the world is the mouth of a labyrinth,” writes Simone Weil. We would be foolish not to follow its call. And so we enter the labyrinth, lured by the whiff of a dream still in the making: the possibility of a new relationship, the promise of a new career, the potential for a new...
    Reading | By Erik W. Martínez Resly | April 27, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Challenge, Change, Failure, Faith, Journey, Living Our Faith
    Worship element
  • To those who gave birth this year to their first child—we celebrate with you To those who lost a child this year–we mourn with you To those who are in the trenches with little ones every day and wear the badge of food stain–we appreciate you To those who experienced loss through miscarriage,...
    Prayer | By Amy Young | April 17, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Children, Despair, Direct Experience, Failure, Family, Love, Mother's Day, Mothers, Parents
    Worship element
  • This short, personal essay from Raziq Brown speaks to failure, loss and personal growth.
    Reading | By Raziq Brown | March 9, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Aging, Direct Experience, Failure, Generations, Men, Unitarian Universalism, Youth/Teens
    Worship element
  • I have a story to tell you, about the less-than-triumphal first appearance I made in a pulpit. I was a first-year seminarian, doing my field work at the old First Parish in Lexington, Massachusetts. When they invited me to preach my first sermon on such an important day as Palm Sunday, I was...
    Sermon | By John A. Buehrens | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Brokenness, Christianity, Failure, Forgiveness
    Worship element