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  • A crack in beige pavement. The photo is tall and thin, and the dark crack stretches in a somewhat jagged line from the bottom left of the photo to the upper right.
    Everything about our existence points towards change, flexibility, and dynamic re-creation. And it’s hard because change involves loss.
    Poetry | By Manish Mishra-Marzetti | August 29, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Business Meetings, Change, Governance, Leadership, Ministerial Transition, Progress, Worship
  • Seen from above, an apparently exhausted person lies on a running track. The person has light brown skin and dark black hair, including a beard and mustache. They are wearing black shorts, a long-sleeve black athletic top, and white athletic shoes. The track is blue, with white lane markings, and the person is lying down where there are yellow triangles marking a relay exchange zone. The track markings give the composition of the image an abstract feel.
    Help me remember, Beloved, that the longings of my heart are never satisfied by the sprint but rather by the slow, languid meander.…
    Poetry, Prayer | By Manish Mishra-Marzetti | April 13, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Balance, Immanence, Journey, Mindfulness, Patience, Trust, Worship
  • A black-and-white photograph of a person’s hand, partially obscured by the paws of a cat. The black cat is nearly invisible in the shadows surrounding the hand, but its face must be behind the hand because the whiskers from one side of its face are visible in the light that illuminates the hand. The cat’s paws — white, in contrast to its black legs — are pulling the person’s hand toward its body.
    If I can do nothing more, I go out the back door and sit on the steps where the tuxedo cat rubs my leg and I look for the holy.…
    Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | April 11, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Animals, Earth, Interdependence, Nature, Spiritual Practice, Worship
  • A person wearing a blue waterproof jacket and grey pants walks away from us on a narrow trail between giant redwood trees in the Pacific Northwest. They are using a wheeled walker as a mobility aid.
    May all creatures live their lives as if no human crushed asphalt / over the land or shaved ancient forests bald.
    Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | April 11, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Earth, Interdependence, Nature, Reverence, Worship
  • A small flowering plant (Phacelia neglecta) on a reddish rock in the desert outside Quartzsite, Arizona. It has four or five leaves on its small stem, and a single blossom with five pale purple and white petals.
    Improbably, the wind-blown seed found its way here, to a long, beautiful stretch of land, but one that was hot, dry, and arid.…
    Poetry | By Manish Mishra-Marzetti | March 13, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beauty, Challenge, Earth, Interdependence, Nature, Resilience, Transformation, Worship
  • A close-up of a drop of water forming on the tip of an icicle, against a blurred dark blue and white background. The many tiny cracks and bubbles in the icicle are visible.
    …it is enough to release the piercing frigidity, the brittle rigidity of ice— and embrace the versatile, vital, blessing, bathing, embodiment of water.
    Poetry | By Nicholas D’Agosto | March 13, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Change, Nature, Simplicity, Transformation, Worship
  • The trunks of a number of trees in a forest stand on the Olympic Peninsula. The brown trunks stand out against the pale green foliage behind them. The largest tree has a much smaller tree right next to it, some of whose roots are wrapped partway around the larger trunk.
    Hug the prayer before it leaves your body. Float it along like murmuring leaves.…
    Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | January 28, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Earth, Nature, Spiritual Practice, Trust, Worship
  • A greyscale image of the tiny feet of a baby held in a pair of adult hands, with larger adult hands cradling both. The symmetrical arrangement of hands and feet somewhat resembles a heart. Behind the hands and feet, we can see a little of the clothes covering the baby’s belly.
    Later, poets would tell of stars, shepherds, and seers, songs of angels…
    Poetry | By Daniel S. Schatz | December 10, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beginnings, Birth, Children, Christianity, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Fathers, Journey, Love, Mothers, Pain, Parents, Winter, Worship
  • The sentence “Racism & hate have no place here” written on an otherwise blank page from a journal. A fountain pen and ink pot rest on the page.
    Where do you keep your love? Invite love in.
    Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | December 9, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Community, Compassion, Earth, Environment, Equity, Freedom, Greed, Interdependence, Justice, Love, Worship
  • The smoothly curving walls of a desert canyon, in which the many sedimentary layers of rock are visible in the red and orange stripes that follow the bends of the surface. The photo is cropped so that the pattern formed by the sedimentary layers appears to be an abstract design.
    …those of us who believe in human rights for everyone; who believe in fundamentals of fairness, of equality, of equity; who believe in recognizing injustices of past, of present, and being accountable for ending them…
    Poetry | By Charles Thomas | September 24, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Accountability, Environment, Equity, Freedom, Justice, Nature, Peace, Rights, Worship
  • A mural of a large red heart on a blue background, painted on a pair of wooden doors in a brick wall.
    Together we create a love energy more powerful than any force of oppression…
    Poetry | By Dayna Edwards | September 24, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: America, Community, Democracy, Faith, Hope, Love, Oppression, Politics, Worship
  • A small copse of oaks in a light misty fog. There are still some green leaves on the trees, but the ground is covered with brown fallen leaves.
    High up, the wild geese have pulled the rusty doorway of Autumn closed behind them, their sharp music a choir of deep acoustic truth.
    Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | July 31, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Animals, Autumnal Equinox, Earth, Earth-Centered, Fall, Nature, Winter, Worship
  • A rough-hewn wooden table top, with a white coffee mug in the foreground and a notebook opened to a blank page in the background.
    The agenda looks long. When will I get home? What surprises and big decisions await us?
    Poetry | By Lisa Smith-Horn | June 28, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Business Meetings, Commitment, Connections, Democracy, Governance, Listening, Respect, Trust, 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 singing bird on a branch, silhouetted against a red and orange sunrise
    I look up and experience her music as a Beatitude of Peace, a feathery sonnet that rings of grace and hope...
    Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | March 29, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Courage, Hope, Love, Nature, Peace, Worship
  • Behind clouds that are faintly lit by the last light of day, a thin crescent moon and a few stars are visible in the blue/black sky.
    There in the deep sack of night, a tiny Hope was born. 
    Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | March 29, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Awe, Beginnings, Birth, Earth-Centered, Hope, Joy, Love, Peace, Sacred, Winter Solstice / Yule, Worship
  • A vibrantly orange and crimson sky, at sunset, with the silhouette of an evergreen tree in front of it.
    Love this world, she whispers.
    Poetry | By Rebecca Ann Parker | November 30, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Advent, Beauty, Brokenness, Earth, Love, Wholeness, Winter Solstice / Yule, Wonder, Worship
  • Unitarian Universalist Association Chalice
    Miles away in a different life...
    Poetry | By Sharon Scholl | September 20, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Grief, Home, Worship
  • From the ground level, the camera points up at a tree canopy beneath a blue sky.
    Is it not a marvel?
    Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | September 20, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Animals, Awe, Body, Earth, Earth Day, Nature, Wonder
  • A close-up of bright pink peacock flower buds, with a couple of flowers opening.
    I am singing/of the wonder of how roots/so love the buds they bid them grow...
    Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | September 20, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beauty, Earth, Earth-Centered, Flower Communion, Nature, Worship