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  • In a living room with a lit Christmas tree and gifts, a woman sits with closed eyes, slumped, with her hand on her forehead as if she's disappointed or frustrated.
    Help me feel the calm in the storm—even the ones of my own making.
    Reflection | By Kahla Childers | December 3, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Advent, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Compassion, Empathy, Failure, Family, Letting Go, Limitations, Responsibility, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Worship
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  • Outdoors, a bench faces a wintry scene of snow, dead grass, and bare trees. A child sits with their back to the camera. They have dark hair pulled back, and are wearing headphones and a blue hooded coat.
    May you know, deep in your bones, that none of this is your fault. May your heart remain soft enough to love and strong enough to protect itself.
    Blessing | By Tandi Rogers | September 22, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Addiction/Recovery, Children, Healing, Parents, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Worship
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  • A patch of asphalt with a crack running through it, and a beige-colored bandage applied over one piece of the crack.
    May you find peace even though I cannot be its source.
    Blessing | By Rumni Saha | August 10, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Compassion, Forgiveness, Healing, Humility, Imagination, Letting Go, Psychology, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Worship
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  • A hand with some dirt smudges on it holds a compass. The background in blurred.
    I trust that my heart knows the way
    Affirmation | By Kari Kopnick | July 23, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Patience, Peace, Searching, Self-Respect, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Transcendence, Trust, Worship
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  • On a black wrought iron fence, a sprig of flowers is taped next to a handwritten sign on purple posterboard: "Trans energy is sacred energy"
    Trans joy trans joy is bigger than the struggle, louder than the hate, more enduring than fear.
    Reflection | By Jes Martinez-Hunt | March 26, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: #LGBTQ, #Pride, 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Children, Identity, Joy, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Parents, Self-Respect, Worship
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  • A close-up of a white person's neck, collarbone, and upper chest. The person is wearing a shallow, scoopnecked black shirt, and there's glitter covering their skin.
    As a trans woman, I love the ways we sparkle; the ways we twirl. This is how I enter the world, and I've paid a high price for it my entire life.
    Reflection | By Quinn Gormley | March 19, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: #LoveResists, #Pride, 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Direct Experience, Freedom, Gender, Healing, Identity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Secular, Self-Respect, Sexuality, Transformation, Women, Worship
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  • An overhead view of a person holding a small globe in their cupped hands. We see the brim of their blue-and-white hat and a foreshortened view of their jeans-clad lower legs and their black shoes; their hands, with the small colorful globe, are visible from our point of view because they stick out far enough to be seen below the hat’s brim. We also see several squares of the sidewalk beneath their feet, decorated with children’s chalk art.
    Agape love—radical, quiet, boundless, unconditional—is the love we have for God, the Universe, the Interconnected Web, for whatever words for Spirit make your soul sing.
    Opening | By Monica Clark-Robinson | February 26, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Community, Connections, God, Interdependence, Love, Sacrifice, Self-Respect, Service, Worship
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  • The front cover of Tricia Hersey’s book “Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto”
    Rest isn’t a luxury, but an absolute necessity if we’re going to survive and thrive. Rest isn’t an afterthought, but a basic part of being human. Rest is a divine right. Rest is a human right.
    Reading | By Tricia Hersey | December 18, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Body, Caring, Culture, Healing, Oppression, Rights, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Work, Worship
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  • A Black person's hands, cupped together, hold a polished, red heart-shaped stone.
    “What is the most loving, life-affirming choice I can make in response to life’s circumstances?”
    Reflection | By Takiyah Nur Amin | October 30, 2024 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Anti-Oppression, Conscience, Contemplation, Direct Experience, Discernment, God, Interfaith, Living Our Faith, Love, Power, Self-Respect, Spirituality, Worship
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  • Two LatinX preteens, crouched on the ground, feeding three black chickens and a speckled rooster.
    Like the free-roaming roosters of the Caribbean, no one can tell me I don’t belong.
    Reflection | By Raquel V. Reyes | September 25, 2024 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Anti-Oppression, Character, Direct Experience, Identity, Integrity, International, Multiculturalism, Race/Ethnicity, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Vulnerability, Worship
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  • A small rainbow flag, on a small stick, is held by the outstretched arms of two different people of color.
    “Queer” challenges the status quo; it dares me to be authentically myself.
    Reflection | By Vanessa Titang | June 19, 2024 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: #Pride, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Coming Out, Direct Experience, Humanism, Identity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Multiculturalism, Pride Sunday, Searching, Self-Respect, Sexuality, Transformation, Worship
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  • A nonbinary teen--white, with freckles and shoulder-length brown hair--holds a camera up, partially obscuring their face, as they look at the photographer.
    Being nonbinary has finally brought me home to myself.
    Reflection | By Mare Martell | June 5, 2024 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: #LGBTQ, #Pride, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Coming-of-Age, Direct Experience, Discernment, Gender, Identity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Pride Sunday, Searching, Self-Respect, Transformation, Wholeness, Worship
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  • A painting of a person's head, in profile. Their brain and the background are both awash in swirls of color, galaxy-like sparks and stars, and cosmic texture.
    People who aren't neurodiverse tend to frame neurodiversity as symptoms of inconvenience to people around them. For me, my ADHD means beauty.
    Reflection | By Quinn Gormley | March 13, 2024 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Beauty, Direct Experience, Identity, Multiculturalism, Psychology, Self-Respect, Wonder, Worship
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  • Black and white photo of only the arms of dark-skinned people, raised as if praying in a church pew
    When someone lists Unitarians or Universalists, they usually name white men. Never anyone Black like me.
    Reflection | By Connie Simon | February 28, 2024 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: #8thPrinciple, #BlackHistoryMonth, #BlackLivesMatter, 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Generations, History, Identity, Race/Ethnicity, Self-Respect, Truth, Unitarian Universalism, Unitarianism, Universalism, Worship
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  • With a blurred gym in the background, a white person with short hair holds a handweight out from her body, so that it's the center of the picture's focus.
    Remind me that success is not the only measure of a life.
    Reflection | By Amanda Poppei | January 31, 2024 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Compassion, Failure, Humanism, Secular, Self-Respect, Vulnerability, Worship
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  • Vanessa, a Black person with her hair in a ponytail, stands between church members with signs. Vanessa is wearing a mask and clergy collar, and is holding her hand in the "peace" sign.
    Just as I can believe in others, I also believe in me.
    Reflection | By Vanessa Titang | January 10, 2024 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Activism, Direct Experience, Discernment, Doubt, Humanism, Identity, Leadership, Ministry, Self-Respect, Worship
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  • A table full of friends raises their glasses--colored glass goblets--in the air outdoors.
    What “toast, boast, and oath” might you offer this January?
    Reflection | By Sarah Klinger Osborne | January 3, 2024 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Beginnings, Choice, Contemplation, Integrity, New Year, Searching, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Worship
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  • A close-up of hands beating on drums outdoors: Earthen Rhythms, a local african drumming group at the Summertime in Maitland, NSW, Australia celebration.
    I believe that we are all "life drummers" just waiting to join in the rhythm.
    Reflection | By Christin Green | October 25, 2023 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Body, Community, Direct Experience, Interdependence, Self-Respect, Worship
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  • A Black woman in athletic clothing is in child's pose on a yoga mat: arms stretched forward, head bowing, kneeling back towards her heels.
    Spirit and Breath, create an openness that violence has constricted.
    Reflection | By Melissa Jeter | October 4, 2023 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, Anger, Body, Earth, Healing, Race/Ethnicity, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Worship
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  • An elderly person with short curly white hair adjusts their glasses so they can wipe away tears with a tissue.
    May you be tender and gentle with yourself
    Prayer | By Katie Sivani Gelfand | September 13, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Brokenness, Disaster or Crisis, Grief, Love, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Stress, Transformation, Worship
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