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We pray that all people can have what they need and know how much they are loved.Prayer | By Liz Weber | September 2, 2025 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Children's / Religious Education Sunday, Children's Sabbath, Community, Happiness, Love, Sadness, WorshipWorship element -
From one of the leading grief therapists, this compassionate and accessible guide to grieving offers a new framework for understanding and navigating loss.An intimate guide to grieving that offers hope and healing within loss from one of the nation’s top grief therapists.Paperback | By Claire Bidwell Smith | May 27, 2025 | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift ShopTagged as: Grief, Healing, SadnessProduct -
An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down.Hardcover | By Katherine May | May 27, 2025 | From inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift ShopTagged as: Healing, Home, Meaning, Peace, Personal Inspiration, Sadness, Self-Care, Simplicity, Spirituality, Strength, WholenessProduct -
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 WorshipWebTagged as: Hope, Identity, Love, Reverence, Sadness, WorshipWorship element -
May we find unexpected ways to remember where we came from and imagine where we may go next. May we find touchstones of our pasts, and may they become a foundation for the future.Reflection | By Alex Haider-Winnett | August 15, 2018 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Body, Change, Direct Experience, Earth, Home, Nature, Sadness, Searching, SecularPage/Article -
There is too much beauty in this world to give up on it yet, and it is always too soon to surrender to cynicism....Opening | By Gretchen Haley | February 16, 2018 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Brokenness, Disaster, Hope, Sadness, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element -
December 7, 2016 “Use loneliness. Its ache creates urgency to reconnect with the world.” — Natalie Goldberg I know a little about "merry" meeting "mess" at the holidays — and by a little I mean How much time have you got? Four Christmases ago, a painful break-up sent me spinning into a long...Reflection | By Erika Hewitt | December 7, 2016 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Advent, Brokenness, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Commitment, God, Healing, Hope, Pain, Sadness, Spiritual PracticePage/Article -
In this hour of holy stillness we gather to honor the life and the person we love. In this hour of Holy Stillness we remind ourselves that the flames of life and love are never fully extinguished. In this hour of Holy Stillness we offer ourselves for sharing the weight of each other’s grief. In...Opening | By Patricia Shelden | April 13, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Acceptance, Animal Memorial, Death, Día de los Muertos, Ending, Grief, Healing, Holocaust Remembrance / Yom Ha'Shoah, Letting Go, Memorial Day, Memorial Services, SadnessWorship element -
To the Weaver of Molecules, the Spinner of Stars the Impulse that gives birth to the Universe, to the Earth, to Me In the deepest, darkest night of my wintered soul I wrap myself in the blanket of my sadness and grief, pain and suffering, doubts and concerns, fears and questions, and look out fro...Meditation | By Cynthia Frado | December 8, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Agnosticism, Depression, Direct Experience, Growth, Healing, Imbolc / Brighid's Day / Candlemas, Indigenous American, Meditation Practices, Mourning, Sadness, Secular, Transcendence, Transformation, Trust, Twelfth Night / Epiphany, Unitarian Universalism, Winter Solstice / YuleWorship element
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Curriculum | September 30, 2015 | For Adults | From Hindsight, Humor, and HopeTagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Aging, Contemplation, Direct Experience, Forgiveness, Growth, Health, Letting Go, Life Transition, Presence, Sadness, Spiritual Practice, SufferingCurriculum page -
It is an hour before sunrise. The waves keep coming, but each minute they make less progress than the minute before....Meditation | By Elizabeth Tarbox | May 28, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Brokenness, Caring, Compassion, Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, Forgiveness, Guilt, Healing, Nature, Pain, Sadness, VulnerabilityWorship element
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It’s hard to believe it is finished. She was so full of life and fun until just before the end— keeping track of people, enjoying the outdoors, caring for family, all of it. Something came for her. She did not want to go. She denied the summons, fighting this final truth of her life. We did not...Meditation | By Mary Wellemeyer | May 13, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Acceptance, Calling, Death, Ending, Letting Go, Peace, Sadness, TranscendenceWorship element
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(In the) Spirit of Love and Remembrance, we mourn and honor [pet's name]. In life he embodied: the one-ness of all living things. In death he bears witness: to love beyond the bounds of race, kin, or species. This is a love with which it is tasked upon us: to unite, heal, and consecrate. From the...Prayer | By Dennis McCarty | February 27, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Death, Dignity, Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, Gratitude, Grief, Interdependence, Nature, Sadness, Secular, SorrowWorship element
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Utility | January 8, 2015 | For Preschool | From Chalice ChildrenTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Courage, Fear, Sadness, Shadow, Solitude, Unitarian Universalism, Vulnerability, WorryCurriculum page -
Utility | October 22, 2014 | For Preschool | From Chalice ChildrenTagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Acceptance, Conflict, Death, Depression, Empathy, Failure, Limitations, Pain, Remembrance Day, Sadness, Unitarian UniversalismCurriculum page