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  • Prehistoric stenciled outlines of many overlapping hands on the wall of a cave (the Cueva de las Manos in Argentina). Some hands show up as ochre on a white background, some are white on a black or ochre background.
    We sang, we loved, we gazed up at the mysterious stars. We tried to understand what had created us, why we were here, why we suffered and how to keep what was precious.
    Reading | By Lóre Stevens | December 1, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Awe, Beginnings, Connections, Earth, Generations, History, Journey, Nature, Reverence, Science, Worship
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  • A low-angle shot of a wet gutter and curb in a city at nighttime. We see the colorful, out-of-focus lights of cars, traffic light, and building windows, as well as their reflections on the damp ground.
    The sacred does not hide from the world—it lives in it.
    Chalice Extinguishing | By Craig Rowland | November 19, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Brokenness, Interdependence, Reverence, Sacred, Worship
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  • A low-angle shot of a wet gutter and curb in a city at nighttime. We see the colorful, out-of-focus lights of cars, traffic light, and building windows, as well as their reflections on the damp ground.
    Not every sanctuary has walls—some are stitched together from longing, kindness, and sheer survival.
    Chalice Lighting | By Craig Rowland | November 19, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Brokenness, Interdependence, Reverence, Sacred, Worship
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  • Assorted crystals, small plants, wood, glass objects, and candles are arranged on a lace table covering, in front of a window, through which we see a snowy day.
    Build a Family Altar: Sacred Space at Home. Involve the entire family in creating a sacred space in your home by building an altar together. it can be in a private, quiet corner, or in a common room where you often gather. What items could you bring into the space to make it special...
    Taking It Home | June 10, 2025 | From Faith Curriculum Library
    Tagged as: Creating a Home, Families & Faith Development, Family, Home, Reverence, Spiritual Practice, Unitarian Universalism
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    A collection of 16 eloquent short prayers, graces, and chalice lightings for children and families to use in the home. Includes prayers from a variety of cultures and faith traditions. Pack of 25 pamphlets. To read this pamphlet click here.
    Pamphlet | By Irene Praeger | May 27, 2025 | For Children | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop
    Tagged as: Children, Contemplation, Faith, Family, Generations, God, Gratitude, Home, Parenting, Parents, Reverence, Spiritual Practice, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality
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  • A person wearing a blue waterproof jacket and grey pants walks away from us on a narrow trail between giant redwood trees in the Pacific Northwest. They are using a wheeled walker as a mobility aid.
    May all creatures live their lives as if no human crushed asphalt / over the land or shaved ancient forests bald.
    Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | April 11, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Earth, Interdependence, Nature, Reverence, Worship
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  • In a darkened room, a child with light brown skin and short straight black hair sits at a window that is splattered with raindrops. The child is wearing a red garment of some sort, and is holding their hand out near the window with their right index finger extended. Outside the window, all we can see is a green blur suggesting plants or trees.
    An interactive, cooperative process of creating a prayer of lament.
    Time for All Ages | By Tara Humphries | April 11, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Christianity, Judaism, Letting Go, Meaning, Mindfulness, Reverence, Sorrow, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Vulnerability, Worship
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  • A white person’s hand with its fingers dipping into shallow water, with sand and rocks beneath.
    A water communion liturgy that asks that we listen for God’s voice in the waters.
    Ritual | By M Jade Kaiser | August 28, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Earth, Earth Day, Environment, Interdependence, Nature, Responsibility, Reverence, Water Communion, Worship
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  • Against a uniform dark background, a bright yellow light shines in the upper left of the image. Rays of light and lens flare effects stream from the central light.
    We light this chalice with all our soul’s longing, to be who we are, to be who will we will become, to be ourselves.
    Chalice Lighting | By SarahRuth Wekoye Davis | July 8, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Hope, Identity, Love, Reverence, Sadness, Worship
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  • … increasing religious plurality in our congregations has brought in perspectives and practices from earth-based religions of many kinds, amplifying an understanding of humankind as one part of a great interconnected web of all existence and deepening our humility and reverence for the web of life.
    Quote | By Sheri Prud’homme | April 25, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: #UUAGA, Earth, Earth-Centered, Humility, Pluralism, Reverence, UUA Bylaws, Vision for UUism
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    Monthly visits from the Omega Dance Company have reinvigorated services and enriched congregants’ experiences.
    By Elaine McArdle | April 3, 2024 | From Spirit
    Tagged as: Awe, Beauty, Community, Creativity, Culture, Faith Development, Imagination, Music in Worship, Nourishing the Spirit, Reverence, Spiritual Practice, Spiritual Practice
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  • A close-up of a small sprout with two green leaves on a short stem. The plant is growing in a plot of deep black soil.
    The oldest stories tell us we came from the dust, and to dust we will return. But dirt? That’s different. Dust is fine, often even sterile. Dirt, on the other hand, is made up of messier stuff.
    Ritual | By Joy Berry | March 11, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Earth, Earth-Centered, Nature, Reverence, Sacred, Worship
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  • A dark skinned girl with shoulder-length wavy hair and a pink shirt hugs a very large tree.
    When people speak up for Earth’s forests, some might call them “tree-huggers.” Tree-hugging’s brave history started in India hundreds of years ago.
    Story | June 5, 2020 (reviewed December 2024) | For Children, Youth, Multigenerational | From Faith Curriculum Library
    Tagged as: Activism, Earth, Environment, Leadership, Reverence
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  • Gold and red autmn leaves surround an abandoned bird's nest
    See how the winds have shaped her hands to hold hope? So tenuous, it trembles like a hummingbird’s heart. She gently carries hope to a nest in the midst of the maelstrom and tilts it into the bowl of tiny feathers and mosses. Hope is so hard to cup. She might need your help when it seeps through...
    Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | April 16, 2020 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Awe, Earth-Centered, Hope, Nature, Reverence, Wonder
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    Hate and betrayal do not and will not prevail, says the resurrection.
    Homily | By Heide Cottam | February 13, 2019 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Awe, Christianity, Easter, Faith, Hope, Living Our Faith, Love, Mystery, Reverence, Strength, Transformation
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    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 WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Birth, Courage, Death, Grief, Healing, Letting Go, Love, Memorial Services, Mothers, Nature, Reverence
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  • A person with their arms raised, as if mid-cheer, viewed from behind with a blank sky above.
    Spirit of Life, love which holds us, We gather in reverence and thanks for You. We are grateful for the gift of another breath, and for each moment of connection, beauty, and truth. Cry with us in our pain for our world. Remind us that we are loved, just as we are. Remind us that we are connected...
    Prayer | By Elizabeth Bukey Saunter | October 21, 2018 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Christianity, Gratitude, Journey, Purpose, Reverence, Service, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism
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  • Two people look up at the camera, their faces pressed together and their hands caressing the other's face.
    I do not wish to breathe another breath if it is not shared with others. The breath of life is not mine alone. I brought myself to be with you, hoping that by inhaling the compassion, the courage, the hope found here, I can exhale the fear, the selfishness, the separateness I keep so close to my...
    Affirmation | By Kristen L. Harper | August 22, 2017 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Awe, Body, Direct Experience, Humanism, Interdependence, Intimacy, Relationships, Reverence, Secular, Unity
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  • colorful tulips, not yet in full bloom, lying on a white table
    At last, we are here. After a long winter, we can say enthusiastically and without second thought, alleluia! Alleluia, spring is here in all her glory. New life begins, the earth and its creatures are resurrected from their dens of hibernation and dark slumber....
    Opening | By Jeanne Lloyd | August 11, 2017 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Beauty, Christianity, Earth, Earth-Centered, Easter, Gratitude, Hope, Joy, Reverence, Spring, Transformation
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  • An arc of a wooden wheel, with "Samhain Oct 31" carved into it, along with a bonfire.
    Blessed Lady, Hallowed Lord, Let me hear your Holy Word. When the Veil is thinned tonight, Let me see with Sacred Sight.
    Invocation | By Martha Kirby Capo | August 11, 2017 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Earth-Centered, Immanence, Mystery, Paganism, Presence, Reverence, Samhain, Transcendence
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