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  • A rough-hewn bronze statue of a man embracing a child who is just a little shorter than he is. In the background, blurry, are some tree branches, a signboard, and a building. The statue is Charlie Mackesy’s “Return of the Prodigal Son,” found outside Holy Trinity Brompton Anglican Church.
    Addiction thrives in isolation and shame—two things that are deeply opposed to the message of Jesus.… The Parable of the Prodigal Child and addiction share profound themes of isolation, shame, and the redemptive power of love and community.
    Sermon | By Phoenix Bell-Shelton Biggs | September 17, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Addiction/Recovery, Community, Compassion, Grace, Healing, Love, Pain, Shame, Trauma, Worship
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  • A painting of a small fountain in a pond. On the surface of the water, ripples radiate outward from the fountain. Beneath the ripples are bright colors forming indistinct shapes. Several small golden squares among the colors give a hint of regularity.
    How do I leave behind the pain, the disappointment, the anger, at what has been? The unconscious cruelty, the negating, the selfish harm I have walked through, knowing the possibility always exists that it could happen again…
    Prayer | By Manish Mishra-Marzetti | August 29, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Caring, Community, Connections, Goddess, Growth, Pain, Suffering, Transformation, Violence, Worship
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    A powerful spiritual companion on your journey through the seasons of chronic illness.Available for pre-order
    Paperback | By Florence Caplow, Julianne Lepp | May 27, 2025 | From Skinner House Books
    Tagged as: Community, Disability, Healing, Mindfulness, Nourishing the Spirit, Pain, Spirituality
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    This timely collection of poems explores faith, race, love, identity, and more, and invites us to think deeply about our place and role in contemporary society. The latest installment in the popular Skinner House inSpirit series.
    Paperback | By Adam Lawrence Dyer | May 27, 2025 | From Skinner House Books
    Tagged as: Activism, Anti-Oppression, Anti-Oppression, Diversity, Faith, Justice, Pain, Race/Ethnicity
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  • A black-and-white photo of the full moon, close to the horizon and behind a tiny wisp of clouds, over the calm but not glassy surface of the Pacific ocean. The water reflects the moon’s light, forming a bright streak between the viewer and the moon.
    Here in the quiet, may we lift up our hearts in gratitude for the gifts of our lives, pausing in thanksgiving.
    Prayer | By Linda Hart | December 11, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Advent, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Faith, Grace, Gratitude, Hope, Love, Pain, Sorrow, Winter Solstice / Yule, Worry, Worship
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  • A greyscale image of the tiny feet of a baby held in a pair of adult hands, with larger adult hands cradling both. The symmetrical arrangement of hands and feet somewhat resembles a heart. Behind the hands and feet, we can see a little of the clothes covering the baby’s belly.
    Later, poets would tell of stars, shepherds, and seers, songs of angels…
    Poetry | By Daniel S. Schatz | December 10, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beginnings, Birth, Children, Christianity, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Fathers, Journey, Love, Mothers, Pain, Parents, Winter, Worship
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  • The bronze statue of Atlas that stands above the entrance of the central train station in Frankfurt. Atlas struggles to hold the Earth — with a band of figures representing the twelve astrological signs surrounding the equator — on his back and shoulders. Atlas is aided by allegorical figures representing Steam and Electricity.
    We call upon all the transcendent gifts of renewal to be bestowed upon us, for an energizing renewal to fill us in all the ways that serve our lagging spirits when our own resilience wanes.
    Meditation | By Rebekah Savage | November 19, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Brokenness, Challenge, Grace, Healing, Love, Oppression, Pain, Resilience, Stress, Wholeness, Worship
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  • A black-and-white photograph of a white man sitting on a bench outside of a building, wearing sneakers, black pants, and a warm cloth coat. The man’s head is bent down, his forearms rest on his knees, and his hands are clasped between his knees. It looks as though he is troubled, or lost in thought.
    Figuring out the why doesn’t really help me. My work is to figure out the how.
    Reading | By Karen Brigid Taliesin | October 29, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Challenge, God, Living Our Faith, Meaning, Pain, Spirituality, Worship
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  • Dark, heavy clouds over the ocean, seen from the coast. Behind the nearly-black clouds, near the horizon, we see indirectly the brightness of the sun. Its light gives a golden glow to the parts of the ocean and sky that are not in deep shadow from the clouds.
    Voice still and small, as we turn inward we listen for you. Deep inside all, this Easter morning, open our hearts to hear you in the figure of Jesus.
    Prayer | By Shari Woodbury | October 5, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Christianity, Community, Compassion, Courage, Death, Easter, Grief, Hope, Love, Pain, Truth, Worship
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  • A person in a black top and blue pants, out of focus, stands looking away from the camera on a forest path. Our point of view is ground level, and in the foreground, in focus, there is a dry brown fallen leaf.
    We lift up those who fear that their hurts, their pains, are too insignificant for healing. May they know that their hurt and their pain is valid, no matter the size, and may they feel comforted in the knowledge that they are not alone and that they are loved.
    Prayer | By Krista Westervelt | July 31, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Brokenness, Caring, Despair, Fear, Grief, Healing, Pain, Regret, Suffering, Wholeness, Worship
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  • Two middle-aged people, seen from the shoulders up, press their faces together intimately and smile broadly. A Pride flag is wrapped around their shoulders.
    May everyone feel safe and free to love as they choose.
    Reflection | By Lynette Yetter | June 12, 2024 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: #Pride, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 6th Principle (World Community), Brokenness, Community, Despair, Direct Experience, Fear, Friendship, Humanism, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Oppression, Pain, Pride Sunday, Searching, Women, Worship
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  • As the sun sets, a tangle of large, smooth rocks rests at the edge of Lake Tahoe's shore.
    In our lives, people sometimes do us wrong.
    Responsive Reading | By Patty Willis | March 8, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Connections, Empathy, Forgiveness, Grace, Pain, Solidarity, Worship
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  • Two Black women pack toys into a box, as though preparing a donation
    Every time someone showed up for me, I learned that love is greater than skin deep.
    Reflection | By Melissa Jeter | January 12, 2022 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Challenge, Choice, Direct Experience, Discernment, Living Our Faith, Love, Pain, Parents, Relationships, Worship
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  • Hands reaching for each other
    Guidance and resources for building a grief support ministry in your congregation during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
    By Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | December 18, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Grief, Pain, Pastoral Care, Suffering, Support and Caring in Congregations
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  • Two people inside an airport terminal wave at an airplane.
    It’s important to honor the footprint others leave on our heart.
    Reading | By Lauren Robbins | October 1, 2020 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Brokenness, Change, Direct Experience, Discernment, Ending, Friendship, Humanism, Pain, Relationships, Secular, Self-Respect, Vulnerability, Worship
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    How might we make our way through this strange and scary time called COVID-19, resilient and pointed toward collective liberation?
    Feature | By Karen G. Johnston | June 1, 2020 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Gratitude, Pain, Spiritual Practice
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  • Looking straight up to branches and spring blossoms found all around Boston Common
    May the invitation of prayer and meditation embrace this holy house and each precious person, moving each and all to connect with a sense of affirmation— sound, movement, or silence— in whatever way your body knows to be true. [chime] Spirit of Life and Love, our hearts are overflowing with...
    Prayer | By Karen G. Johnston | May 5, 2020 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Community, Courage, Justice, Meaning, Pain, Politics, Purpose, Unitarian Universalism, Vision
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  • Two wooden knitting needles plunged into a ball of thick purple yarn
    Knit six purl six sets of two rows four rows six rows up to twelve, patterns, repeating, steady, soothingly same. This is not what life is like. Life is like picking up a tousled hunk of yarn pulled out of the basket by an impatient child looking for a string too many times. You find an end. You...
    Poetry | By Dawn Star Sarahs-Borchelt | October 16, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Acceptance, Brokenness, Connections, Direct Experience, Grief, Humanism, Interdependence, Life Transition, Pain, Secular, Stress
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  • A close-up of one person's hands clasping another person's hands, as if offer comfort
    "Compassion is love's response to pain." from https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/500901.How_to_Be_an_Adult_in_Relati… To Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Living, p. 36.
    Quote | By David Richo | March 5, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Compassion, Direct Experience, Humanism, Love, Pain, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Secular
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    Mission and covenant are an antidote to individualism. They remind us of the responsibilities that come with an affirmation of interdependence.
    By Susan Frederick-Gray | March 1, 2019 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Community, Despair, Forgiveness, Individualism, Pain, Solidarity, UU Beliefs, UU Theology
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