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  • From above, a river cuts through an evergreen forest
    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 WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Earth, Earth-Centered, Imagination, Nature, Resilience, Self-Respect, Strength, Water Communion
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  • Several people standing with their arms around each other, photo taken from behind, so that the composition is a tangle of backs and arms.
    This recipe has been tweaked over time, so adjust as necessary. Sometimes it yields more servings than anticipated. Sometimes it needs a bit more of this ingredient or that. It comes from generations who have gone before me, and I've added my own flavor along the way. A Recipe for Resilience…
    Reading | By Margaret Weis | May 27, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Balance, Challenge, Courage, Despair, Grace, Health, Hope, Imagination, Resilience, Self-Care
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  • Northern_Lights_Water_Snow-covered_Rocks-Flickr
    Let this be a time of resilience. May the changing seasons bring new meaning and new insights. May creativity and persistence lead us to find resources for all to share. May those who migrate find safety, and may there be good news in the wind. May transformation lead us onward.
    Meditation | By Lyn Cox | March 17, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Abundance, Contemplation, Creativity, Earth, Earth-Centered, Growth, Healing, Journey, Resilience, Trust, Winter, Winter Solstice / Yule
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  • A young copule sits on a sidewalk, pressed together, laughing.
    Love leads us to observe in a much deeper way than any other emotion.
    Reading | By Adrienne Maree Brown | November 1, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Love, Purpose, Relationships, Resilience
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  • With buildings behind them, people march in Los Angeles holding the rainbow and Mexican flags. The woman in the center of the photo is raising her vist, mid-chant.
    We move for justice; we live for peace; we will not rest until we are heard. We will not rest until equity is made more real, all around us.
    Prayer | By Jo VonRue | March 15, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Activism, Anti-Oppression, Courage, Justice, Resilience, Solidarity, Strength, Unitarian Universalism
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  • In stark light, against a black background, a simple wooden manger
    Holy One, Emmanuel, You are with us and we with You, now on the eve of a birth like no other, and a birth exactly like all others. We ponder the dreams and foretelling—royalty, savior, the light of the world. Revolution and possibility wrapped in helplessness and vulnerability.…
    Prayer | By Lisa Doege | January 23, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Awe, Birth, Christianity, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Joy, Redemption, Resilience
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  • a round loaf of bread sprinkled with flour sitting on a black natural surface
    A villager discovers a creative & delicious way of cooking food, but is forbidden to do it because it is not traditional. She and her friends disobey.
    Story | By Renee Ruchotzke | November 29, 2017 (reviewed November 2024) | For Children, Youth, Adults | From Faith Curricula Library
    Tagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Change, Community, Conflict Management in Congregations, Conscience, Dissent, Governance, Human Rights, Pluralism, Resilience, Teamwork, Transformation, UU Theology
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  • A primitive village built in the treetops built with palm leaves and wattle
    A tale of two villages, one who decided to change with the times as needed, and the other, which held on to old ways in spite of them no longer working.
    Story | By Renee Ruchotzke | November 29, 2017 (reviewed November 2024) | For Children, Youth, Adults | From Faith Curricula Library
    Tagged as: Change, Congregational Polity, Courage, Creativity, Democracy, Diversity, Governance, Nature, Resilience, Transformation, UU Theology, Wisdom
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  • For those [of us] who are Black, Indigenous, or people of color, the effects of racism and oppression are an everyday lived reality — and these feelings [of vulnerability, fear, and broken-heartedness] are not new.
    Offering | By Lena K. Gardner, Susan Frederick-Gray | October 25, 2017 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Anti-Oppression, Generosity, Multiculturalism, Race/Ethnicity, Resilience, Stewardship, Vision
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  • Spirit of Life and Love, God of Many Names, we gather in awareness of the opportunity before us as Unitarian Universalists. We have been given many chances before today to heal the wounds of the racism and oppression that have beset our denomination for many years...
    Prayer | By Connie Simon | October 15, 2017 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Anti-Oppression, Commitment, Community, Direct Experience, Healing, Integrity, Living Our Faith, Multiculturalism, Race/Ethnicity, Reconciliation, Resilience, Unitarian Universalism
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  • A person's hands are bound together behind their back with plastic zip-ties, and a police officer's holster, with more zip-ties, is in the frame.
    Give voice to sorrow and fear — the wracking sobs at family betraying family the shock at the chasm separating neighbors...
    Meditation | By Lindasusan Ulrich | January 19, 2017 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), America, Anti-Oppression, Community, Courage, Direct Experience, Fear, Hope, Living Our Faith, Politics, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Resilience, Solidarity, Unitarian Universalism
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  • Out of a crack in a cement sidewalk, a tiny green shoot emerges.
    You are loved beyond belief. You are enough, you are precious, your work and your life matter, and you are not alone. You are part of a “we,” a great cloud of witnesses living and dead who have insisted that this beautiful, broken world of ours is a blessing…
    Affirmation | By Ashley Horan | November 9, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Activism, Anti-Oppression, Community, Direct Experience, Disaster or Crisis, Hope, Interdependence, Resilience, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism, Unity
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  • two babies, wearing fuzzy hoods with animal ears, sleep in a stroller while holding small American flags
    May we remember we are a people of resilience. We have faced uncertainty before; we have weathered storms; we have been consumed by flames; we have risen like the phoenix from the ashes. And we will again.
    Prayer | By Sara Eileen LaWall | November 7, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: America, Democracy, Diversity, Interdependence, Resilience, Unity
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  • a sea of faces at a vigil in response to the Orlando shootings. Above the crowd, a rainbow flag ripples in the breeze.
    Spirit of Life and Love, known by many names and yet fully known by none, be with us in this hour of grief. Be with us as we reach out to one another in comfort. Be with us as we come to terms with our sadness, anger, and despair. Hold us in the embrace of eternal love...
    Prayer | By Lyn Cox | June 17, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), Anti-Oppression, Earth-Centered, Generations, Grief, Healing, Justice, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Love, Mourning, Resilience, Solidarity, Terrorism, Unitarian Universalism
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  • LGBTQ Welcoming Congregation logo
    This name now symbolizes all that you truly are and are becoming.
    Ritual | By Laura Bogle | April 5, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Body, Direct Experience, Gender, Identity, Inclusion, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Life Transition, Multiculturalism, Resilience, Transformation, Wholeness
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  • December fourteenth, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” (1865). Unitarian poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote “Christmas Bells” (a poem later set to music and renamed “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”) just months before the end of the Civil War.
    December fourteenth, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” (1865). Unitarian poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote “Christmas Bells” (a poem later set to music and renamed “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”) just months before the end of the Civil War.
    Image | By Ralph Yeager Roberts | November 23, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Advent, America, Arts & Music, Christmas Eve / Christmas, History, Resilience, Unitarianism, War, Winter Solstice / Yule
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  • Spirit of my longing and lonely heart, help me travel through the barren borderlands that separate me from others. Teach me to willingly explore relationships with those who frighten or threaten me, grant me the courage to risk confidently my own comforts, that I might make others more comfortable.
    Prayer | By Stephen M. Shick | March 12, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Choice, Compassion, Connections, Courage, Empathy, Resilience, Unitarian Universalism, Vulnerability
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  • Against a pink and orange sunset, the silhouetted bodies of about 20 people
    My theology understands humanity as simultaneously fragile and resilient, weak and strong, greedy and generous, mean and compassionate. I see the divine spark in the tension between those opposites....
    Meditation | By DC Fortune | March 2, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Beauty, Humanism, Love, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Resilience, Secular, Strength, Weakness
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  • How many of you like to go hiking? I have a number of walks nearby that I like. Hunger Mountain, Snake Mountain and others. Or if we don’t want to drive, my wife and I just go down to our local park where in just a few steps you can forget you’re in the city. Sometimes we bring our dog Smokey...
    Story | By Gary Kowalski | February 23, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Balance, Challenge, Direct Experience, Environment, Growth, Mindfulness, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Resilience, Searching, Unitarian Universalism
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  • Many Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations follow an annual Ingathering tradition on the first Sunday after Labor Day that includes a Water Communion/Ceremony ritual. Specific traditions vary widely, but often they include introductory remarks, a time for reflection, a sharing of water that...
    Ritual | By Eric Cherry | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Connections, Earth, Globalism, Homecoming / Ingathering, Interdependence, International, Nature, Resilience, Unitarian Universalism, Water Communion
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