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Leader: For our earth, our ancient mother, blue-green planet of the galaxy, harbinger of lives beyond measure, we honor you with our humble presence, we bow with humility and gratitude. All: We pledge to transform our lives....Litany | By Kate R. Walker | August 27, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Climate Justice, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Nature, Responsibility, TransformationWorship 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 -
In our water ritual, we bring water from the places we live or the places we may have visited and pour it in one container. All of the water mixes together, and every drop has some of the molecules of water from every place....Reading | By Myke Johnson | June 25, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Awe, Connections, Direct Experience, Earth, Interdependence, Nature, Secular, Unitarian Universalism, Water CommunionWorship element -
If justice is to be realized, our voices must speak loudly—even boisterously—of love.Reflection | By Lindasusan Ulrich | June 5, 2019 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), America, Animals, Community, Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, Globalism, Humanism, Interdependence, July 4th, Justice, Love, Nature, Purpose, Relationships, SecularPage/Article -
Visual meditations.Feature | By Jami Yandle | June 3, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Earth, Gender, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, NaturePage/Article -
What delights me in watercolor is ‘the moment of magic,’ when water touches pigment and flows with a transparent life of its own.By Anne Cohen | June 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Arts & Music, Nature, Spiritual PracticePage/Article -
The tides slowly wear away at the ragged and scraped edges where we tore ourselves out, and what is left behind is as smooth as breath.Meditation | By Jess Reynolds | June 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Acceptance, Body, Nature, TransformationPage/Article -
Simply by existing, it serves many others. For human beings, the work of the bodhisattva is a path of kindness, the choice to serve others as a way of life.Feature | By Stephanie Kaza | June 1, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Environment, Kindness, Nature, Sacrifice, Salvation, Spiritual PracticePage/Article -
We live on a fragile island of life, in a universe of possibilities. For many millennia, humans have been on a journey to find answers, answers to questions about naturalism and transcendence, about who we are and why we are, and of course, who else might be out there. Is it really just us?...Reading | By Jill Tarter | May 23, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Awe, Earth, Earth-Centered, Imagination, Nature, WonderWorship element -
Similar to people, the only way Emperor penguins thrive is in community.Story | By Marisol Caballero | May 15, 2019 (reviewed June 2025) | For Children, Families, Multigenerational | From Faith Curricula LibraryTagged as: Community, Interdependence, NatureCurriculum page -
I call the tall bush on my back patio “Burning Bush” because in autumn its leaves are a fiery red. All winter long I overlooked three uninhabited nests inside of it. For months and months I could have perceived—but didn’t—what was in plain sight. ...Reflection | By Karen G. Johnston | April 24, 2019 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Buddhism, Direct Experience, Earth, Humanism, Identity, Imagination, Nature, Searching, SecularPage/Article -
We gather here to remember this is our home, but not just ours....Meditation | By Laura Bogle | April 16, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Generations, Indigenous Peoples Day, Nature, Responsibility, StewardshipWorship element -
Young Unitarian Universalists helped organize student walkouts in several cities on March 15 to demand action on climate change.By Elaine McArdle | March 29, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Climate Justice, Environment, Nature, Politics, Young Adults, Youth/TeensPage/Article -
I go for fierce landscapes every chance I get.By Jane Rzepka | February 18, 2019 | From UU WorldTagged as: Gratitude, Nature, Personal Stories, Transcendence, TransformationPage/Article -
Surrender is the last thing, often the only thing, available. And so we give ourselves to it. We fear it is our end. Sometimes—with grace or luck—we find it is our liberation.Reflection | By Karen G. Johnston | January 23, 2019 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, Fear, Freedom, Imagination, Interdependence, Ministry, Nature, SalvationPage/Article -
And so I bury my cauldron today I fill it full of salt and place it in the warm earth. Cradle it Persephone! Hold and rock and heal this womb. Take my woes and transform them. I was supposed to be this perfect gateway, and hold the balance of life and death. Well I held life, for a brief moment.Prayer | By Rebecka Clement | January 22, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Birth, Courage, Death, Grief, Healing, Letting Go, Love, Memorial Services, Mothers, Nature, ReverenceWorship element -
We gather as many drops, each winding our own path down life’s surfaces and ruts. Here we pool together as a single body, flowing together for a time. Together we are a stream, at times even a river, for with our shared force we can travel toward oceans of meaning and seas of connection.Chalice Lighting | By Leslie Takahashi | December 7, 2018 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Community, Connections, Earth, Earth-Centered, Meaning, Nature, Playfulness, Unitarian Universalism, Water CommunionWorship element -
Humans make maps of stars, choosing some stars, ignoring others, to project our imaginations onto the heavens. These maps shift over time, across cultures. Names change for the same assemblage of bright points: Drinking Gourd, Big Dipper, Plough, Lost Hunters [1], Saptarishi [2]. Humans make...Affirmation | By Karen G. Johnston | December 6, 2018 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Commitment, Community, Earth, Earth-Centered, Imagination, Leadership, Meaning, Nature, Stewardship, WonderWorship element
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Cultivating human virtue, respecting the animal, defining oneself.By Jeffrey A. Lockwood | December 3, 2018 | From UU WorldTagged as: Ethics, Food, Nature, ResponsibilityPage/Article -
California wildfires displace thousands, including Unitarian Universalists; UUA Disaster Relief Fund has already responded.By Michael Hart | November 19, 2018 | From UU WorldTagged as: Disaster, Nature, Trauma, Trauma ResponsePage/Article