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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 WorshipWebTagged as: Awe, Body, Gratitude, Joy, Listening, Mystery, Presence, Unitarian Universalism, WorthWorship element
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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 WorshipWebTagged as: Awe, Direct Experience, Growth, Humility, Mystery, Prophetic Words & Deeds, SearchingWorship element -
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 WorshipWebTagged as: Awe, Connections, Contemplation, Mystery, Presence, Unity, WonderWorship element -
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 WorshipWebTagged as: Connections, Healing, Mystery, Strength, UnityWorship element
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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 WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Body, Good, Healing, Health, Illness, Mystery, Reverence, Secular, Unitarian Universalism, WholenessWorship element -
We gather on this Sabbath morn to worship in spirit and truth; to raise a joyful noise to the Eternal Mystery; to reconfirm our covenant to seek wisdom in love; to strengthen our commitment to the common good. We come from many paths to explore that which is hidden; to consider the ways of our...Opening | By Burton D. Carley | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Commitment, Courage, Covenant, Faith, Good, Healing, Mystery, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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We gather here to worship: to seek the truth, to grow in love, to join in service; to celebrate life's beauty and find healing for its pain; to honor our kinship with each other and with the earth; to create a more compassionate world, beginning with ourselves; to wonder at the mystery that gave ...Opening | By Gary Kowalski | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Beauty, Courage, Earth, Healing, Listening, Mystery, Searching, Unitarian Universalism, WisdomWorship element
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Our Subaru Forester was sliding sideways down Interstate 80 at fifty miles per hour. My wife, Nan, had gingerly switched to the left-hand lane to avoid a truck that was overturned on the right shoulder, but no amount of experience, skill, or caution could overcome our car’s mass and momentum on a...Reading | By Jeffrey A. Lockwood | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Death, Fear, Meaning, Mystery, SearchingWorship element
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"I never lived, that I remember, what you call a common natural day. All my days are touched by the supernatural, for I feel the pressure of hidden causes, and the presence, sometimes the communion, of unseen powers. It needs not that I should ask the clairvoyant whether a spirit‐world projects...Quote | By Margaret Fuller | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Awe, History, Mystery, Presence, WonderWorship element
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"All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural....Quote | By Margaret Fuller | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Character, Earth, History, Mystery, Power, SpiritualityWorship element
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"Thou art greatly wise, my friend, and ever respected by me, yet I find not in your theory or your scope, room enough for the lyric inspirations, or the mysterious whispers of life. To me it seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself, than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a...Quote | By Margaret Fuller | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Awe, Mystery, Sacred, Searching, Vulnerability, WonderWorship element
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For five thousand years, or more,more than two hundred fifty generations,human beings have been invoking spiritual power.My predecessors, and yours,have gathered togetherto make sense of their livesand their place in the cosmos.And they have spoken aloud,and invited what they conceived as sacred ...Opening | By Matthew Johnson | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Awe, Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, Generations, History, Indigenous American, Meaning, Mystery, Power, PurposeWorship element -
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 WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Awe, Beginnings, Earth, Immanence, Interdependence, Mystery, Nature, Reverence, Sacred, TranscendenceWorship element -
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 WorshipWebTagged as: Christianity, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Courage, God, Goddess, Mystery, Searching, WonderWorship element -
Utility | January 8, 2015 | For Preschool | From Chalice ChildrenTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Direct Experience, Fear, Identity, Individualism, Mystery, Self-Respect, Shadow, Unitarian Universalism, WholenessCurriculum page -
Utility | January 8, 2015 | For Preschool | From Chalice ChildrenTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Direct Experience, Fear, Mystery, Psychology, Searching, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism, Vision, WonderCurriculum page
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Utility | November 7, 2014 | For Preschool | From Chalice ChildrenTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Awe, Direct Experience, Mystery, Reason, Science, Transcendence, Truth, Unitarian Universalism, WonderCurriculum page
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Utility | November 7, 2014 | For Preschool | From Chalice ChildrenTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Awe, Direct Experience, Meaning, Mindfulness, Mystery, Reason, Reverence, Science, Searching, Spirituality, Transcendence, Unitarian UniversalismCurriculum page
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Adapted from an anecdote told in A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (Bantam, 1988), Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein (Penguin Group, 2007) and other sources. What if I ask you where everything comes from? What will you say? Leader: Invite responses.Story | October 20, 2014 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryTagged as: Belief, MysteryCurriculum page -
“The Magic Vase” was adapted from "The Magic Vase" as retold by Margaret Silf in One Hundred Wisdom Stories from Around the World, compiled by Margaret Silf (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2003), 41-42. Used by permission, all rights reserved. There was once a poor family who lived in a drab...Story | May 17, 2013 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From Creating HomeTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Beauty, Depression, Direct Experience, Family, Home, Mystery, TeamworkCurriculum page