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  • On sabbatical in East Africa, I heard a story of a people who believe that we are each created with our own song. Their tradition as a community is to honor that song by singing it as welcome when a child is born, as comfort when the child is ill, in celebration when the child marries, and in...
    Meditation | By David S Blanchard | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Beauty, Character, Children, Direct Experience, Individualism, Mystery, Prophetic Words & Deeds
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  • In the beginning There was light Infinite and expansive Flowing out from an unseen center. Throughout Creation There is light From the steady Sun The glowing Moon The flashing Meteor The twinkling Stars And the auroras dancing in the northern skies....
    Chalice Lighting | By Eric Williams | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Awe, Beginnings, Earth, Immanence, Interdependence, Mystery, Nature, Reverence, Sacred, Transcendence
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  • We know the story: an angel of the Lord appeared to the shepherds. The glory of the Lord shone around them. A great light descends on dark fields, happy angels and cherubim sing for joy, play their lutes, and dance about to defy the gravity of earthly cares....
    Meditation | By Teresa Schwartz | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Christianity, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Courage, God, Goddess, Mystery, Searching, Wonder
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  • We seek life’s meaning in the wonder of morning In the freshness of springtime, And in each others hearts and minds. Yet still we hope for something more, A break in the ordinary, An infusion of the unexpected, An explosion of glory, A miracle, Revealing more than we hope to understand.
    Opening | By Charles F Flagg | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Easter, Mystery
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  • Many of the past generation and many of today have found three abiding values in prayer: the quiet meditation on life, the reaching out toward the universal and the infinite, and the courageous facing of one's profoundest wishes....
    Chalice Lighting | By Sophia Lyon Fahs | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Awe, Beginnings, Children, Courage, Empathy, Generations, Journey, Mystery, Progress
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  • In the mystery of life about us there is light. It gives us a place to be, to grow, to rejoice together. It opens the pathways to love. In this place of friendship there is freedom. Let the light we kindle go before us, Strong in hope, wide in good will, Inviting the day to come.
    Chalice Lighting | By George Kimmich Beach | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Community, Connections, Friendship, Good, Growth, Hope, Journey, Joy, Love, Mystery, Unitarian Universalism
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  • God of all generations, in all the power, mystery and design of this world, draw us near, inspire us to see anew the life before us. Make us like the child who sees so clearly and touches so deeply. From the source of our being, we yearn for new vision, new eyes to see the world, new ears to hear...
    Meditation | By Marta Flanagan | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Mystery, Pain, Presence, Searching, Unitarian Universalism
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  • Giver of being and freedom, thou who touches our lives in unforeseen ways, who unsettles our ease and upsets our self-satisfactions: We wait in these moments of stillness to let the hidden processes of healing and growth do their silent work within us, and to let the quiet work of reconciliation ...
    Meditation | By George Kimmich Beach | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Growth, Mystery, Searching, Silence, Trust, Unitarian Universalism
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  • Wouldn't it be great if you could take a picture of your soul?...
    Meditation | By Tess Baumberger | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beauty, Identity, Mystery, Playfulness, Unitarian Universalism, Wonder
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  • Once upon a time God said, "I'm bored because I don't have anything to do. I want to play with my friends." And because God is God, as soon as the words were spoken, God's friends were there. When God saw them all gathered, God said, "I've been bored because I haven't had anything to do....
    Reading | By Mary Ann Moore | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Direct Experience, God, Mystery
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  • We are here because we are people of faith. Within each of us lives the conviction of a saving faith that could restore our broken planet and illuminate the lives of our sisters and brothers. Ancient wisdom teaches that we who would save the world must first save ourselves....
    Reading | By Kendyl L. R. Gibbons | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 6th Principle (World Community), Brokenness, Faith, Healing, Mystery, Service, Unitarian Universalism, Wisdom
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  • May we open ourselves ever more fully to that Eternal Mystery which lures us onward toward life and creativity. May we find the courage to live our faith, to speak our truth, and to strive together for a world where freedom abounds and justice truly does roll down like water. May we know the...
    Meditation | By Carol Meyer | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Compassion, Connections, Mystery, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Vulnerability
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  • Spirit of life and hope, we turn our minds and hearts again toward thee. Awaken us again to the mysteries that humble us, the realities that orient us, the truths that judge and guide us, the beauty that informs and ravishes us, the love that nurtures us, the fellowship that sustains us, the...
    Opening | By Clarke Dewey Wells | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Mystery, Wholeness
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  • Spirit of life—mysterious power in all creation—we gather before you now as countless others have stood asking that you make yourself known to us. Let us find you in the glories and wonders of the world and in moments of great joy and ecstasy. But most of all, let us find you in the commonplace:...
    Meditation | By Andrew C Backus | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Awe, Connections, Growth, Mystery, Revelation, Transcendence
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  • Source of life and death, ground of all being, Spirit of our spirits, whose we are in life and in death—Life itself is the great mystery and death a part of it. In truth we know not the one nor the other. We live and die in the mystery of being from moment to moment till at the end we merge with...
    Prayer | By Richard M Fewkes | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Connections, Death, Gratitude, Mystery, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Reverence, Unitarian Universalism
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  • Oh Divine Spirit, healer of my hurts, consoler of my sorrows, vibrant light of happiness, birther of all life and gentle way of death, hear my prayer. I raise my heart to you as do the ancient redwoods, rooted in the ground, swaying in the wind....
    Meditation | By Tess Baumberger | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Awe, Body, Gratitude, Joy, Listening, Mystery, Presence, Unitarian Universalism, Worth
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  • Day by day, month by month, year by year we are confronted with all that we do not know, that we do not understand, that we do not grasp....
    Meditation | By Susan L Suchocki | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Awe, Direct Experience, Growth, Humility, Mystery, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Searching
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  • How does one address a mystery? Cautiously—let us go cautiously, then, to the end of our certainty, to the boundary of all we know, to the rim of uncertainty, to the perimeter of the unknown which surrounds us. Reverently—let us go with a sense of awe, a feeling of approaching the powerful holy...
    Meditation | By Gordon B McKeeman | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Awe, Connections, Contemplation, Mystery, Presence, Unity, Wonder
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  • Ah, how beautiful is this day. How crisp and clean the air. How clear the sky. How full of life the teeming earth. And we are alive! Yes, we feel the beat of our own hearts, the pulsing of life in our veins, the rhythm of our breathing....
    Meditation | By Sara Campbell | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Connections, Healing, Mystery, Strength, Unity
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  • "Holy One, You knit me together in my mother's womb." This is the voice of Psalm 139: "[I] was not hidden from you when I was made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth." Let us remember and celebrate, this morning, that each of our bodies was woven together in the depths of...
    Opening | By Erika Hewitt | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Body, Good, Healing, Health, Illness, Mystery, Reverence, Secular, Unitarian Universalism, Wholeness
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