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The Season of Flowers
Let us contemplate the Spirit together: Spirit of Life and Love, Justice and Peace: Six weeks ago our Christian neighbors held their rite of ashes, and this past week they scattered palms from which next year’s ashes will be made, and commemorated the death of the ancient leader whose ministry...
Prayer | By Paul R Beedle | April 9, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Tagged as: Christianity, Connections, Easter, Hope, Interdependence
Add the Alleluias
Let us contemplate the Spirit together: Spirit of Life and Love, Justice and Peace: Day in and day out wait weary tasks, burdens we lift again, worn paths we wear some more, Want, and means worn thin, and fatigue— Pain and grief, coldness of heart, bitter and weary days&mdash Where we know...
Prayer | By Paul R Beedle | April 9, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Tagged as: Abundance, Balance, Easter, Healing, Health, Hope, Strength
Pouring Oil
We do not know the woman’s name. Jesus tells those with him not to scold her for anointing his head: “Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has performed a good service for me. For you always have the poor with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish; but you will not...
Reading | By Paul R Beedle | April 9, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Tagged as: Christianity, Connections, Easter, Faith, Relationships, Unity
Resurrection
In all sacred literature, the hearts of the storytellers are revealed in the stories, their breath is felt in the words on the page, and we may be touched or moved or stirred by their ancient art. And maybe we can glimpse a truth that they saw, if we read closely and reflect on what we have read.
Reading | By Paul R Beedle | April 9, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Tagged as: Awe, Christianity, Contemplation, Easter, Mystery
Body Prayer, Version Two
Please join me for a body prayer of caring. We bring our hands over our hearts to express respect for ourselves. We expand our hands into a small circle to express respect for others. We expand our hands out wide to express our respect for our church. [repeat 3 times] Amen and may it be so.
Prayer | By Annie Scott | April 3, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Body, Direct Experience, Healing, Health, Silence, Spiritual Practice, Worship Tips
Body Prayer, Version One
It's important is to take time to be quiet, to be still, so we can be in touch with the deepest and best part of ourselves—our inner voice— often called prayer or meditation. I invite you to join in a body prayer. I will show you the motions— then invite you to move through it with me once,...
Prayer | By Annie Scott | April 3, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Body, Direct Experience, Healing, Health, Silence, Spiritual Practice, Worship Tips
Live amid the Play of Infinite Thought
“I believe that if, on every Sunday morning before going to church, we could be lifted to a mountain-peak and see a horizon line of six hundred miles enfolding the copious splendor of the light on such a varied expanse; or if we could look upon a square mile of flowers representing all the specie...
Quote | By Thomas Starr King | March 31, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Awe, Climate Justice, Earth, Earth Day, Nature, Reverence, Unitarianism, Universalism, Wonder
The Return of Earth/She
The Earth has returned. She is living, breathing, Realizing her breath was leaving. She was needing us to remember her worth, to recognize her worth all over again. We used to be her friends. We used to help her heal us. Help her, heal us. Help her heal us....
Poetry | By Christopher Sims | March 30, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Tagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Climate Justice, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Healing, Nature, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Unitarian Universalism
To Remember Our Promises
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 WorshipWeb

Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Covenant, Love, Relationships, Unitarian Universalism, Vulnerability
We Keep Its Light in Our Hearts
We extinguish this flame, But we keep its light in our hearts, with its message of love and justice, Taking it outside these walls to the world we live in, until we are together again.
Chalice Extinguishing | By Maddie Sifantus | March 27, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Tagged as: Commitment, Community, Humanism, Justice, Teamwork, Unitarian Universalism
Call to Worship and Action
It is said that ministers are here to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. I say, we are all afflicted, and we are all comfortable. May our time together this morning be a comfort and a confrontation. May we here find peace in times of tumult; May we here invite tumult into lives of...
Opening | By Sharon Wylie | March 27, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Tagged as: Activism, Challenge, Commitment, Justice
Multiple Intelligences Welcome
The diversity of the human species is astounding. The fact that we can gather together for common experience is nothing short of a miracle. Today, let us celebrate some of those differences....
Opening | By Dawn Skjei Cooley | March 27, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Community, Covenant, Diversity, Sacred
Sacred
We join our voices in a holy communion of mind and heart, dedicated to the promises that bind us in compassion, one with another. In this hour we light the flame that signals our intention to find the sacred in every living thing.
Chalice Lighting | By Robin F. Gray | March 25, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Tagged as: Community, Compassion, Covenant, Dignity, Healing, Immanence, Inclusion, Reverence, Sacred
Chalice Extinguishing
Ours is a communion borne of words and welcome. Our communion finds expression in caring and commitment to our highest ideals. Our communion lives on in our hearts though this sacred hour is ended.
Closing | By Robin F. Gray | March 25, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Tagged as: Sacred
Chalice Extinguishing
The flame is extinguished, but not our hope for the future, our courage in the face of crisis, or the love we share in all the world.
Closing | By Robin F. Gray | March 25, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Tagged as: Sacred
We Prepare for the Future
By the light of this chalice we prepare for the future. We prepare ourselves for the times of triumph and times of trial that might come. We prepare ourselves to be present to one another with loving hearts even in the most difficult of times....
Chalice Lighting | By Robin F. Gray | March 25, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Tagged as: Caring
Blessing at Departure
We call for this blessing on all sheltered here whether in body or in spirit... May the flame of our community ignite a love bold enough to share. And, in return May we all be embraced by a love that remains constant in times of sorrow and in days of great gladness.
Closing | By Robin F. Gray | March 25, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Tagged as: Community, Justice, Peace
Day Break
(Can be preceded by singing the first verse of "Bright Morning Stars," Hymn 357 in Singing the Living Tradition) Day breaks on our gratitude for family and friends, For the freedom to find our own truth, For the company of those who gather here, And the promises we offer one another....
Chalice Lighting | By Robin F. Gray | March 25, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Tagged as: Covenant, Faith, Family, Freedom, Friendship, Grace, Gratitude, Hope, Journey, Truth
Depature
As we prepare to depart, we give voice to these hopes: May we know ourselves bound in community, even while we are apart. May a passion for justice burn in our lives. May we carry the light of compassion in our hearts and in our every interaction....
Closing | By Robin F. Gray | March 25, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Tagged as: Community, Justice, Peace
Chalice Lighting for a Service on the Separation of Church and State
This chalice burns with twin flames. The first flame burns for those who seek and defend the right to a free and responsible search for truth and meaning so that each person may live according to conscience in a democratically elected society. The second flame burns for the defenders of freedom,...
Chalice Lighting | By Tracy Bleakney | March 25, 2015 | From WorshipWeb

Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Activism, America, Anti-Oppression, Commitment, Democracy, Freedom, July 4th, Justice Sunday, Memorial Day, Oppression, Power, Responsibility, Rights, Secular, Unitarian Universalism

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