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  • The dome of the Pantheon in Rome, seen from below and lit from bright sunlight coming through the dome’s open top. The photo is in black and white, overexposed and with high contrast, so the shadows of the architectural elements form a pattern reminiscent of the seeds of a sunflower.
    we gather now / in the wake of their efforts to erase / as a sign / that we are not so easy to erase / and knowing that we are / literally love becoming
    Affirmation | By Kimi Floyd Reisch | August 13, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: America, Family, History, Identity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Living Our Faith, Love, National Coming Out Day, Pride Sunday, Sacred, Transgender Day of Remembrance, Worship
  • Against a dark flat landscape with the sun low on the horizon, a river winds dramatically into the distance. It stretches across the image from right to left and back again four or five times before disappearing into the horizon.
    In the beginning, the Earth spoke.… And water, ever flowing, taught that life is movement and change.
    Affirmation | By Kimi Floyd Reisch | August 12, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Change, Commitment, Connections, Earth, Justice, Water Communion, Wisdom, Worship
  • A close-up of braided rope.
    This is a reunion. We’re re-membering.
    Affirmation | By Alessandra Nysether-Santos | July 23, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Community, Connections, Diversity, Inclusion, Interdependence, Living Our Faith
  • Unitarian Universalist Association Chalice
    ... the fullness of our shapes and sizes are countless as stars in an infinite universe.
    Affirmation | By Amy G. S. A. Brooks | July 23, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Body, Empathy, Fat Liberation, Identity, Inclusion
  • 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
  • A wooden footbridge, with a railing on the right side but not the left, leads into a forest with a mix of firs and leafy trees. Our viewpoint is as if we were standing on the bridge as it reaches the end of a small ravine, and we see the bridge continue as a boardwalk that disappears into the woods.
    We won’t know how the story ends until we get there, but we can decide what words we use to write those stories.
    Affirmation | By Emily Richards | February 5, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beginnings, Courage, Creativity, Ending, Gratitude, Hope, Joy, Kindness, Love, Peace, Worship
  • A green wooden door set in an ivy-covered wall. The door is locked with a padlock. On the upper part of the door, at about eye level, there is a small hole in the shape of a heart.
    Today in UU congregations all over the world, people will gather in an effort to live into, as best as we can, what we profess about placing love at the center of all we do.
    Affirmation | By David A Miller | January 30, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: America, Calling, Challenge, Faith, Living Our Faith, Love, Worship
  • The front cover of Tricia Hersey’s book “Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto”
    Let our rest be a resurrection. Let the veils be lifted so we can feel, see, taste, and smell the power of our rested selves.
    Affirmation | By Tricia Hersey | December 18, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Body, Caring, Culture, Healing, Hope, Love, Revelation, Worship
  • A white woman with dreadlocks and a colorful hairband, and a Black man with short hair dyed blond, sort food and clothing at a food bank. They are working at a table on which there are large plastic bins for clothes and smaller bins for bread and canned goods. Behind them are the windows of the room they are working in, with small potted plants on the windowsill.
    Our true wealth is the welfare of all beings and the planet that we all call home.
    Affirmation | By Aaron Payson | November 8, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Activism, America, Caring, Community, Democracy, Education, Living Our Faith, Politics, War, Work, Worship
  • A small pile of painted rocks outdoors; one, painted with stripes, says LOVE
    We need one another so that when our own little spring of hope dries up, there is a community well from which we can drink.
    Affirmation | By Julia Hamilton | October 9, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Disaster or Crisis, Worship
  • Through a heart-shaped window in the door of a light blue metal box, we see a glowing candle and its reflection.
    We gather in covenant to celebrate the reality that love is at the core of our beings and that love will guide us if we open ourselves to the challenges which love requires of us.
    Affirmation, Opening, Poetry | By Esther Hurlburt | June 26, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Covenant, Living Our Faith, Love, Worship
  • A bright orange sun rises over a bank of clouds
    We are divine bodies of light and darkness
    Affirmation | By Elandria Williams | January 25, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Activism, Courage, Faith, Freedom, Integrity, Justice, Living Our Faith, Seven Principles, Solidarity
  • Cellist playing cello during concert, in a black and white close up that makes the neck of the cello appear somewhat abstract.
    Loss binds us together undeniably.
    Affirmation | By Atena O. Danner | August 23, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Brokenness, Connections, Grief, Healing, Kindness, Suffering
  • Unitarian Universalist Association Chalice
    My dreams matter, as they are connected to the dreams of my ancestors.
    Affirmation | By Phoenix Bell-Shelton Biggs | March 30, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Direct Experience, Imagination, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Vision, Worship
  • A menorah with red candles lies on the open pages of Hebrew scripture.
    We could have assimilated but instead / we rededicate
    Affirmation | By Leah Ongiri | March 1, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Hanukkah, Identity, Judaism, Strength, Tradition, Worship
  • Against a sunset and dark sky, two figures appear to be dancing ecstatically.
    You will find me there; Dancing in the Shadows. You will find me there; where light meets the dark; You will find me there, dancing, dancing in the shadows; Shadows of lives past lived, Shadows of pain held near, You will find me there; Dancing in the Shadows; Shadows of ancestors dear; yes, you...
    Affirmation | By Phoenix Bell-Shelton Biggs | January 14, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
  • MLK in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963.
    We have come here today to remember what some are intent on making us forget.
    Affirmation | By Addae Ama Kraba | January 10, 2022 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: History, Justice, Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday, Race/Ethnicity, Worship
  • A wash of gentle, shimmering light, as if the inside of a bubble.
    Love calls me to rest when I feel disconnected
    Affirmation | By Melissa Jeter | November 24, 2021 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Christianity, Interdependence, Love, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Worship
  • Unitarian Universalist Association Chalice
    To be content to live in Mystery is central to the liberal religious tradition.
    Affirmation | By Paul Stephan Dodenhoff | November 17, 2021 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Doubt, Freedom, Mystery, Unitarian Universalism
  • Unitarian Universalist Association Chalice
    Every day offers us, yet again, the chance to experience our own Divinity and spiritual Transformation.
    Affirmation | By Paul Stephan Dodenhoff | November 17, 2021 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Easter, Good Friday, Unitarian Universalism