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Quiet yourself and listen to the rhythm of your breath, your heart . . .Listen to the silence . . .Meditation | By Stephen W Dick | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Contemplation, Direct Experience, Meditation Practices, Self-Care, Silence, Spiritual PracticeWorship element -
It is easy to pray when the sun shines And we are grateful for another glorious day of being. It is hard to pray when wind and rain and thunder Plague our every step and spoil our every plan. It is easy to be virtuous when life goes well And our existence is a journey from bliss to beauty and back.Reading | By Richard S. Gilbert | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Spiritual PracticeWorship element
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All too often, we pace the geometries of our walled gardens, Believing we are traversing the whole of creation. With spirits of discovery, let us uncover the mysteries nested in our routines, With the eagerness of children, let us seek out the secrets unfolding in our peripheral vision. Let us...Reading | By John Gibb Millspaugh | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Challenge, Connections, Grace, Spiritual PracticeWorship element
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Come down off the ladder. Wash out that paintbrush. Shake the sand out of your shoes. Get up off your muddy knees, and give the garden a morning off. Fold up the newspaper. Turn off the coffeepot. Close up your calendar, already filled with dates, and times, and people, and places that claim you.Opening | By David S Blanchard | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Community, Purpose, Self-Care, Spiritual Practice, Unitarian UniversalismWorship element
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When my mind is still and alone with the beating of my heart, I remember many things too easily forgotten: the purity of early love; the maturity of unselfish love that seeks nothing but another's good; the idealism that has persisted through all the tempest of life.Meditation | By Paul H Beattie | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Peace, Solitude, Spiritual PracticeWorship element
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We give you thanks, O God, for all that is good and kind and just. For all the wonders of nature that speak of your continuing divine presence: the sunrise and sunset, the rainbow, the waterfall, the roaring ocean and the quiet stream, the majestic mountain peak and the serene desert. We give you...Ritual | By Kenneth Claus | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 6th Principle (World Community), Christianity, Communion (Christian), Direct Experience, Grace, Gratitude, Nature, Revelation, Spiritual Practice, Tradition, TransformationWorship element -
Wage peace with your breath. Breathe in firefighters and rubble, breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds. Breathe in terrorists and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields. Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees. Breathe in the fallen and breathe out...Meditation | By Judyth Hill | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Body, Brokenness, Spiritual PracticeWorship element
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"Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom."...Quote | By Thomas Wentworth Higginson | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Faith, History, Hope, Spiritual Practice, SufferingWorship element
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I’ve always had a fantasy about going to the airport with just the clothes on my back, my ID, a credit card and my toothbrush. I go through the revolving door, walk up to the counter and look up at the day’s flight schedule as if I were looking at the menu in a coffee shop. But instead of...Sermon | By Susan Maginn | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Direct Experience, Multiculturalism, Multiculturalism, Reverence, Searching, Spiritual Practice, TransformationWorship element
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...For the affluent, sitting down to a dinner derived from perhaps twenty-five different food sources is taken for granted...Filling the plate and eating and drinking to fullness is a social event, an opportunity to admire the art before you, to pay your respects by consuming it....Homily | By Meri Gibb | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Food, Food Justice, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Responsibility, Spiritual PracticeWorship element
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Your "becoming" is coming "becoming: A Spiritual Guide for Navigating Adulthood" is hot off the press and boy is it ever HOT! When we started http://blueboat.blogs.uua.org/2015/01/06/adulthood-spiritually-guided/"… this book last week we had no idea just how quickly it would become so popular. We...By Annie Gonzalez Milliken | January 15, 2015 | From Guides and ToolsTagged as: Awards, Scholarships, & Grants, Beliefs & Principles, Bridging Ceremony, Campus Ministry, Community, Connections, Discernment, Education, Faith, Faith Development, Growth, Interdependence, Leadership, Multiculturalism, Prayer Practices, Secular, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Teaching Methods, Unitarian Universalism, UU Identity, Vision for UUism, Young Adult Faith Development (ages 18-35)Page/Article -
Unitarian Universalist Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) will send a copy of it to those who ask free of charge. (Until the copies run out, of course.) Here are the details: the UUA has printed 3000 copies of Becoming, nearly a third of which are going to young adult, campus ministry and...By Kayla Parker | January 6, 2015 | From Guides and ToolsTagged as: Awards, Scholarships, & Grants, Beliefs & Principles, Community, Congregational Action, Discernment, Education, Faith, Faith Development, Growth, Leadership, Multiculturalism, Prayer Practices, Secular, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Teaching Methods, Unitarian Universalism, UU Identity, Young Adult Faith Development (ages 18-35)Page/Article -
Re-read or Share the Ten Most-read stories on Blue Boat How Am I, Anyway? http://blueboat.blogs.uua.org/2013/09/05/improve-young-adult-ministry-a… Young Adult Ministry at Your Congregation … Seminary Was Awesome http://blueboat.blogs.uua.org/2014/01/06/sunday-assembly-has-it-backwar… Assembly...By Ted Resnikoff | December 31, 2014 | From Guides and ToolsTagged as: Activism, Awards, Scholarships, & Grants, Beliefs & Principles, Campus Ministry, Education, Faith, Faith Development, Growth, High School-Aged Youth Faith Development, Leadership, News, Secular, Spiritual Practice, Teaching Methods, Truth, Unitarian Universalism, Young Adult Faith Development (ages 18-35)Page/Article -
I used to think my grandfather's worldview was limited and small-minded.By Travis Tennessen | December 28, 2014 | From UU WorldTagged as: Personal Inspiration, Personal Stories, Spiritual PracticePage/Article -
Welcome to the Spotlight Series! Each month we feature a different Unitarian Universalist congregation or community that is doing effective, innovative or otherwise interesting ministry with young adults.– Ed. Embodied multigenerational worship draws young adults Though...By Annie Gonzalez Milliken | December 26, 2014 | From Stories and VoicesTagged as: Faith, Growth, Identity, Nourishing the Spirit, Secular, Spiritual Practice, Unitarian Universalism, Worship, Young Adult Faith Development (ages 18-35)Page/Article -
More Jingle, More Puzzle! Read the full article on UU World to puzzle it out... Thanks to Steven Ballesteros, Carter, Jared Dobro and Kadyn Frawley to taking our challenge! The winner of Weekend Challenge 4 receives a copy of...By Ted Resnikoff | December 22, 2014 | From Guides and ToolsTagged as: Awards, Scholarships, & Grants, Community, Faith Development, History, Identity, Interdependence, Leadership, Nourishing the Spirit, Playfulness, Purpose, Secular, Spiritual Practice, Unitarian Universalism, UU History, UU Identity, UUA HeadquartersPage/Article -
Spiritual Growth Happens Someplace... rel… practices and identification of people is evolving, the value of spiritual congregation remains, as this excerpt of a post from the Parenting Blog of the New York Times explains.–Ed. Learn how Unitarian Universalism, and The Unitarian Universalist...By Ted Resnikoff | December 16, 2014 | From Future of FaithTagged as: Education, Faith, Faith Development, Growth, High School-Aged Youth Faith Development, Interdependence, Leadership, Nourishing the Spirit, Purpose, Secular, Spiritual Practice, Teaching Methods, Unitarian Universalism, UU Identity, UUA Headquarters, Youth SundayPage/Article -
Young Adult Spiritual Growth and Community is Here Winter Escape 2015 Retreat (WE'15) is now open! Spend your Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend (Friday January 16 to Monday, January 19, 2015) engaged in social and spiritual activities, workshops, hiking, games, music, cooking, baking, and more!By Ted Resnikoff | December 15, 2014 | From Young AdultsTagged as: Awards, Scholarships, & Grants, Beliefs & Principles, Community, Education, Faith, Faith Development, Growth, Leadership, Multiculturalism, Nourishing the Spirit, Secular, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Teaching Methods, Unitarian Universalism, Young Adult Faith Development (ages 18-35)Page/Article -
For those of us who follow the Christian tradition, now is the season of Adventwho proudly proclaims that all generations will call her blessed. If you too, know oppression in our current society, remember how very sacred you are. Remember that you are co-creating divinity itself with your life.By Annie Gonzalez Milliken | December 4, 2014 | From Stories and VoicesTagged as: Activism, Advent, Anti-Oppression, Christianity, Community, Discernment, Equity, Homecoming / Ingathering, Multiculturalism, Prayer Practices, Religious & Civil Liberties, Secular, Social Justice, Spiritual Practice, Unitarian Universalism, UU Identity, WorshipPage/Article -
Every December, the same old argument flares up on Facebook. Before Facebook, it would blow up on Livejournal and before Livejournal it would blow up on listservs. Maybe next year, it will flare up on Instagram or we'll be having Snapchat arguments about it....By Bart Frost | December 3, 2014 | From Stories and VoicesTagged as: Belief, Chalica, Christianity, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Judaism, Prayer Practices, Religion, Religious Pluralism, Spiritual Practice, Tradition, Unitarian Universalism, UU Identity, WorshipPage/Article