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O God of many names, the personal and mysterious, We have come to a quiet time, an interior place, a place for the deepening of spirit, the enrichment of soul. We seek to know ourselves by knowing you....Prayer | By Katie Kandarian-Morris | October 29, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Awe, Coming Out, Faith, Integrity, Mystery, Trust, VulnerabilityWorship element
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Unconditional love is not so much about how we receive and endure each other, as it is about the deep vow to never, under any condition, stop bringing the flawed truth of who we are to each other.Quote | By Mark Nepo | October 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Acceptance, Humanism, Love, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Relationships, VulnerabilityWorship element -
[In the] spirit of love, harmony, and remembrance, we stand too often divided, too often set apart from one another in heedless ways. We seek to be compassionate but our vision may be clouded or distracted. We too often go forward, day by day, and look without seeing....Litany | By Dennis McCarty | August 3, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Anti-Oppression, Compassion, Direct Experience, Integrity, Relationships, Solidarity, Suffering, VulnerabilityWorship element -
This is a ritual of caring for one another, couched in terms of struggle and hope.Ritual | By Erika Hewitt | July 24, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Connections, Direct Experience, Hope, Pain, Relationships, Strength, VulnerabilityWorship element -
if we show them at all most of us who write our secrets down and call it poetry prefer to slip it under the door and run, and if we must be present at the reading, disguise ourselves in sotto voice and pale monotone but here was one who could take us into his personal life and show us around as i...Poetry | By Ric Masten | June 3, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Connections, Home, Honesty, Hospitality, Humility, Intimacy, Relationships, Solidarity, Vulnerability, WholenessWorship element
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Spirit of Life, I give thanks for the opportunities to love that present themselves in the turmoil of life. Where the light catches the tears in another’s eyes, where hands are held and there are moments without words, let us be present then, and alive to the possibility of changing. Let us seek...Meditation | By Elizabeth Tarbox | May 28, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Caring, Change, Compassion, Gratitude, Love, Presence, Relationships, Vulnerability, WonderWorship element
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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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Our locks tell us a lot about our lives. Locks of all kinds hold my attention because of a dream I had when I was thirteen. In the dream a gray-haired woman in a white coat sat behind a desk. I knew she was me, far in the future. Behind her on the wall was a cross-stitched sampler with a motto. I...Meditation | By Meg Barnhouse | May 28, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Class, Courage, Fear, Meaning, Purpose, Race/Ethnicity, Relationships, Trust, Vision, VulnerabilityWorship element -
I have learned to trust those who are witnesses rather than gurus, those who express their confusion as well as their knowledge, and those who share their suffering along with their joy.Quote | By David O. Rankin | May 28, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Humility, Joy, Suffering, Trust, Vulnerability, WisdomWorship element
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By what are you saved?And how? Saved like a bit of string, tucked away in a drawer? Saved like a child rushed from a burning building, already singed and coughing smoke? Or are you salvaged like a car part—the one good door when the rest is wrecked? Do you believe me when I say you are neither...Meditation | By Lynn Ungar | May 25, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Beauty, Caring, Health, Salvation, VulnerabilityWorship element -
The universe does not revolve around you. The stars and planets spinning through the ballroom of space dance with one another quite outside of your small life. You cannot hold gravity or seasons; even air and water inevitably evade your grasp. Why not, then, let go?...Meditation | By Lynn Ungar | May 25, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Awe, Humility, Letting Go, Limitations, Listening, Transcendence, Vulnerability, WonderWorship element -
This Korean folk tale, translated by Heinz Insu Fenkl, is similar to the European folk tale “The Frog Prince.” Used with the translator’s permission. Once there was a woman who had a son late in life, and much to her surprise, he was born as a snake. She covered him with the bamboo hat she...Story | May 18, 2015 | For Multigenerational | From MiraclesTagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Acceptance, Commitment, Compassion, Courage, Family, Identity, International, Reconciliation, Transformation, Vulnerability, WorthCurriculum page -
May you be brave enough to expose your aching woundedness and reveal your vulnerability. May you speak your deepest truths, knowing that they will change as you do. May you sing the music within you, composing your own melody, playing your song with all your heart....Blessing | By Jean M. Olson | April 27, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Bridging Ceremony, Brokenness, Change, Child Dedication, Courage, Integrity, Journey, Love, New Child, Truth, Vulnerability, Young Adults, Youth/TeensWorship element -
I stretch forth my hand Knowing not what I shall touch... A tender spot, An open wound, Warmth, Pulsing life, Fragile blossoms, A rock, Ice. I am tentative, trembling... Wishing to avoid hurt, Wanting to link my life with Life. Lonely, I desire companions Naked, I long for defenders....Poetry | By Gordon B McKeeman | April 27, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Caring, Connections, Despair, Hope, Intimacy, VulnerabilityWorship element
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Be gentle with another— It is a cry from the lives of people battered By thoughtless words and brutal deeds; It comes from the lips of those who speak them, And the lives of those who do them. Who of us can look inside another and know what is there Of hope and hurt, or promise and pain? Who...Meditation | By Richard S. Gilbert | April 26, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Caring, Compassion, Love, Pain, Prophetic Words & Deeds, VulnerabilityWorship element
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Bring who you are as you enter our church this morning. Bring your best self and your struggling self; bring your mistakes and your triumphs; bring your shortcomings and your recommitment to good....Opening | By Sarah C Stewart | March 29, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Covenant, Love, Relationships, Unitarian Universalism, VulnerabilityWorship element
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I got off work at 7 pm and did the thing where you chase the bus a little bit but then realize you won’t make it and walk sheepishly back to the bus stop. I’m already an hour late to Sunday night singing at the Lucy Stone Cooperative, a UU affordable housing co-op in Boston. I’m still...Reading | By Elizabeth Nguyen | March 23, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Commitment, Community, Conflict, Direct Experience, Relationships, Unitarian Universalism, VulnerabilityWorship element
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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 WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Choice, Compassion, Connections, Courage, Empathy, Resilience, Unitarian Universalism, VulnerabilityWorship element
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Oh spirit of life and love, We pause for a moment on this snowy day to reflect on the changes one week can make in our lives. We celebrate the feast of Imbolc, the pagan holiday that heralds the coming of spring. Our hearts stir with the thought that lambs are being born, that the light is...Prayer | By Deborah Weiner | March 2, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Acceptance, Agnosticism, Climate Justice, Earth-Centered, Imbolc / Brighid's Day / Candlemas, Mystery, Nature, Paganism, Reverence, Unitarian Universalism, Vulnerability, WinterWorship element
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In our experience of letting go, may we be open to the possibility that we need not pick our worries back up.Meditation | By Carol Allman-Morton | February 19, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Balance, Direct Experience, Letting Go, Mindfulness, Self-Care, Stress, Unitarian Universalism, Vulnerability, WorryWorship element