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We light this chalice today to illuminate our way toward Love.Chalice Lighting | By Melissa Jeter | November 22, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Imagination, Love, Parents, Patience, Unitarian Universalism, WorshipWorship element -
My inner compass reminds me of the power we’ve been given to create a new future.Reflection | By Mariela Pérez-Simons | July 14, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Earth, Earth-Centered, Imagination, Limitations, Nature, Self-Care, Self-Respect, WorshipPage/Article -
Breathe in for caregivers of all kinds who give of themselves to make other people’s lives better, more whole.Prayer | By Sara Goodman | June 2, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Caring, Family, Generations, Grief, Imagination, Mother's Day, Responsibility, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element -
A movement meditation for all agesMeditation | By Kimberlee Anne Tomczak Carlson | March 18, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Body, Children's / Religious Education Sunday, Children's Sabbath, Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, Growth, Imagination, Nature, Resilience, Strength, WorshipWorship element -
The wilderness alongside every moment, sprawling in each direction, holds more than the silence that theologians imagine of God.Reflection | By Jake Morrill | November 25, 2020 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #COVID19, Contemplation, Death, Direct Experience, Earth, Earth-Centered, God, Imagination, Nature, Transcendence, WorshipPage/Article -
At the core of American racism is the belief that the things we the Blacks desire, the fact that we the Blacks desire, are perversions.Reading | By Imani Perry | October 27, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, America, Anti-Oppression, Challenge, Character, Imagination, Race/EthnicityWorship element -
It often feels like we’re shouting into the void. It was a gift to be reminded that sometimes someone is listening.Reflection | By Jodi Cohen Hayashida | July 8, 2020 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), Activism, America, Belief, Democracy, Direct Experience, Imagination, Justice, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Race/Ethnicity, Solidarity, TruthPage/Article -
This quite perfect accidental photo.By Nancy Pierce | June 1, 2020 | From UU WorldTagged as: Animals, Arts & Music, Fear, Imagination, Meaning, NaturePage/Article -
Once there was a wise woman named Athenerva.* Athenerva would travel from town to town in her country, spending a few days, maybe a week in each town. People came to her with difficult problems or arguments they were having with others, and she would help them find their way toward satisfying...Story | By Gail Sphar | May 8, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Belief, Diversity, God, Goddess, ImaginationWorship element
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I hope that this Great Silence, which has come alongside the suffering, holds the beginnings of our healing.Reflection | By Elea Kemler | May 6, 2020 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Balance, Beauty, Body, Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, Hope, Humanism, Imagination, Nature, Presence, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Secular, SpringPage/Article -
This story is great to be acted out by four women (of applicable ages for each direction) around a large bowl/vessel....Story | By Katie Sivani Gelfand | January 7, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, Generations, Imagination, Listening, Nature, Sacred, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism, Water Communion, WomenWorship element -
In my chapel, redwing blackbird unravels her liquid song in the cattails.Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | January 2, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Connections, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Environment, Imagination, Interdependence, Nature, Spirituality, WonderWorship element -
‘Birds represent the glorious continuation of their extinct dinosaur ancestors.’By Rex LeBeau | November 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Animals, Arts & Music, Gender, Imagination, NaturePage/Article -
Blessed is the dark, in which our dreams stir and are revealed. Blessed is the dark of earth, where seeds come to life. Blessed are the depths of the ocean where no light shimmers: the womb of all earthly life. Blessed is the light into which we awake, the light that sparkles on the waters: that...Chalice Extinguishing | By Amy Zucker Morgenstern | October 31, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Earth, Earth-Centered, Imagination, NatureWorship element -
God, teach us to consider also how others experience the world. To understand how my reality and their reality are different and yet they share qualities of the same core desire. Teach us to listen for shared feelings, for places of connection. Teach us to be curious and open to hearing differences.Prayer | By Tanya Cothran | September 11, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Christianity, Compassion, Direct Experience, Empathy, God, Healing, Imagination, Immanence, Love, Unity, VulnerabilityWorship element -
Settle your mind upon the strength, the power that is yours. Draw that strength into your heart. Draw it up into your soul. As we gather together the many waters of this community, we need each of your power, each of your resilience, each of your love to make us whole.Meditation | By Jamila Batchelder , Molly Housh Gordon | September 4, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Earth, Earth-Centered, Imagination, Nature, Resilience, Self-Respect, Strength, Water CommunionWorship element -
Rain falls upon the surface of the earth, and pulled by gravity each drop begins to flow downhill. Drop merges with drop, flowing together, into a trickle, a streamlet, a creek, a mighty river, flowing onward. Some of the water seeps down into the earth itself, as groundwater, or deep aquifers,...Time for All Ages | By Molly Housh Gordon, Jamila Batchelder | September 4, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Awe, Body, Climate Justice, Direct Experience, Earth, Earth-Centered, Imagination, Nature, Playfulness, Science, Secular, Water CommunionWorship element -
This was written as a blessing for pouring out the Water Communion waters onto a memorial garden. Like water that swells rivers and fills the ocean, the memories of those we have loved rush through us. Sometimes they are quiet, almost as if we have forgotten—and then suddenly, they flood our...Ritual | By Amy Zucker Morgenstern | September 4, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Direct Experience, Generations, Grief, Humanism, Imagination, Interdependence, Nature, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Remembrance Day, Secular, Water CommunionWorship element -
Recognizing the beauty around us and within us, in voice and spirit, we gather to light our chalice. May we savor the beauty of our abundance and diversity, always cherishing one another and our earth. May we remember to inhale the lushness in life knowing that we are a people of beauty.Chalice Lighting | By Kimberlee Anne Tomczak Carlson | August 7, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Beauty, Earth, Earth-Centered, Humanism, Imagination, NatureWorship element -
A community of geese in an open meadow, threatened to be eaten by a fox, can't escape, but they do come up with another creative solution.Story | By Faye Mogensen | June 9, 2019 (reviewed December 2024) | For Children, Youth, Adults | From Faith Curricula LibraryTagged as: Courage, Creativity, Imagination, Nonviolence, SolidarityPage/Article