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  • Seen from below, a flock of pigeons flies from the lower left to the upper right of the frame, against the white and pale blue background of a cloudy sky.
    We are bound for freedom, building on foundations laid before us.
    Opening, Reading | By Joan Javier-Duval | December 5, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Activism, Anti-Oppression, Character, Commitment, Courage, Freedom, Justice, Justice Sunday, Living Our Faith, Progress, Rights, Worship
  • A white woman with long reddish-brown hair holds an iPhone up to her face with two hands, perhaps taking a photo. The phone blocks most of her face from view, except for the corners of her sunglasses. Behind her, blurry, we see a mostly empty street or plaza.
    A call to worship is secretly a call to focus our attention. Choosing to focus our attention is countercultural.
    Opening | By Samantha Lynne Wilson | November 20, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Calling, Commitment, Community, Connections, Mindfulness, Presence, Sacred, Spiritual Practice, Worship
  • A group of thirty or so yellow tulips in bloom, seen from ground level, reaching up into a blue sky with some white clouds.
    Alleluia to love that is stronger than death—to love that is stronger than empire. Alleluia to love that will never end.
    Opening | By Rachael Hayes | August 13, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Community, Easter, Fear, Generosity, Grief, Joy, Love, Mystery, Resilience, Worship
  • A low-angle view of the gray paving stones on a street. The stones are foreshortened vertically, so we see two dozen or so rows of them, each row containing three or four stones. The stones are rough-hewn and of varying shades of gray.
    ...we don’t know, can’t anticipate...the paths, unexpected, that open before us.
    Opening | By Linda Hart | July 23, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Conscience, Discernment, Humility, Letting Go, Limitations, Listening, Mindfulness
  • A black-and-white photo of an older person carrying a heavy bucket uphill on a dark-colored road next to a whitewashed stucco wall. The person is wearing sandals and a calf-length sleeveless dress made of a diamond-patterned fabric. They are stooped over and walking away from the camera, so all that can be seen of their head is some curly grey hair. They are carrying the bucket with their left arm, and their right arm is bent with the hand at their right hip.
    We don’t have to impress or convince or win over. We don’t have to know the words. It’s okay we didn’t read the book, or pass that class, or carry that title, or meet that mark. We don’t have to be anything but who we are.
    Opening | By Kate Steinberg | April 24, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Community, Compassion, Connections, Interdependence, Justice, Letting Go, Self-Care, Worship
  • A chalice with the word Love over the flame, with six outstretched swirls that create a circular space within them. Together, they form a six-petal flower shape and alternate in color between goldenrod and dark pink. Each contains one of the six UU shared values, printed in a modern font. Clockwise: Transformation (aqua), Equity (bright green), Pluralism (red), Interdependence (dark blue), Justice (goldenrod), and Generosity (dark pink).
    … Love is not only at the center but also the opening that invites us to lament, celebrate, and care.
    Opening | By anastasia birosh | April 24, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Caring, Equity, Generosity, Interdependence, Justice, Love, Pluralism, Transformation, Worship
  • A close up of a green palm plant front, with the stalk symmetrically dividing its many green leaves.
    Thousands of years ago people in an ancient city sang the songs of their hearts.
    Opening | By Emily R. Mace | April 16, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Christianity, Love, Meaning, Palm Sunday, Redemption, Sacred, Salvation, Tradition, Worship
  • An overhead view of a person holding a small globe in their cupped hands. We see the brim of their blue-and-white hat and a foreshortened view of their jeans-clad lower legs and their black shoes; their hands, with the small colorful globe, are visible from our point of view because they stick out far enough to be seen below the hat’s brim. We also see several squares of the sidewalk beneath their feet, decorated with children’s chalk art.
    Agape love—radical, quiet, boundless, unconditional—is the love we have for God, the Universe, the Interconnected Web, for whatever words for Spirit make your soul sing.
    Opening | By Monica Clark-Robinson | February 26, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Community, Connections, God, Interdependence, Love, Sacrifice, Self-Respect, Service, Worship
  • Several stalks of tall meadow grass, silhouetted against an orange sky with the sun low on the horizon.
    If you have come here seeking comfort, may your pain be soothed. If you have come here looking for answers, may you find new questions.…
    Opening | By Michelle LaGrave | February 5, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Calling, Community, Purpose, Searching, Worship
  • An aerial view of a public park in autumn. The main feature is a large circular area, perhaps hundreds of yards across, whose perimeter is marked by large trees. The circle is divided by walking paths into eight equal sections, meeting at a very large tree in the center of the circle.
    We join together in solidarity as a covenanted people, who are drawn together by the promise of connection and the mysterious pull of the unanswerable.
    Opening | By Bran Lennox | January 6, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Community, Covenant, Love, Mystery, Solidarity, Wonder, Worship
  • Rays of sunlight stream down through a break in the cloudy sky, showing green plants and trees on mountains that otherwise look dark.
    Let beauty in. Let beauty in like waves lapping on the shore, covering the beach and soaking the sand like an embrace.
    Opening | By Rebekah Savage | November 18, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beauty, Happiness, Joy, Sacred, Worship
  • Two fireworks exploding in a deep black sky. The two explosions each take the shape of a dandelion, with streaks of white light coming out of a colorful center. The firework on the left is pale green, with red at the center; the one on the right ranges from yellow in the center to red and purple at the edges.
    Rejoice! May this time of worship celebrate what we know at our core.
    Opening | By Rebekah Savage | October 30, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Faith, Gratitude, Joy, Transformation, Worship
  • In the foreground there is a mostly leafless sapling, standing in a field of brown grass. In the distance, at the far edges of the field, there much larger trees, still with green leaves.
    Justice is our prayer. We affirm in covenant with the Beloved Community that is possible.
    Opening | By Rebekah Savage | October 30, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Community, Equity, Growth, Interdependence, Justice, Patience, Worship
  • A murmuration of birds, seen from a distance. The birds form a black cloud of varying density, seen against a sky streaked with clouds. The clouds near the horizon show a touch of red from the rising or setting sun.
    May our time together honor all the hopes we hold within; may our time together bless us with the gifts of inspiration, comfort and renewal.
    Opening | By Rebekah Savage | October 29, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Community, Creativity, Growth, Home, Hope, Peace, Purpose, Strength, Wholeness, Worship
  • Looking from inside a room through a set of four tall arched windows, we see a garden with some tall purple salvia-like flowers. Beyond the garden a wide grassy field stretches to the horizon, where there are trees and hills.
    There is no separation, here, of the sacred from the profane. No setting apart from the natural world.
    Opening | By Shari Woodbury | October 4, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beauty, Body, Connections, Interdependence, Nature, Sacred, Spirituality, Spring, 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
  • chalice at St. Cloud UU Fellowship
    May we be kind in our speaking, thoughtful in our deliberating, and never stray from the love that binds us together.
    Opening | By Linda Hart | June 6, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Business Meetings, Community, Covenant, Democracy, Governance, Interdependence, Leadership, Service, Teamwork, Work, Worship
  • A woman with long hair, mostly in silhouette, holds a sparkler near the camera. The camera is focused mostly on the bright red and yellow sparks, with the woman behind them slightly blurred.
    The essence that is you—that spark of life, is in your body; is of your body; and it is—you are—divine.
    Opening | By Gwen Matthews | May 30, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Body, Humanism, Sacred, Worship
  • In a dark room, white-hot molten metal is poured from a crucible into a mold. We see leather-clad arms holding a long-handled tool to help guide the flow.
    Here we engage in a holy alchemy, finding beauty in the ordinary and life in the present.
    Opening | By Kim Mason | April 6, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beauty, Community, Connections, Solidarity, Transformation, Worship
  • A stone church stands silhouetted against a night sky in which the Milky Way is visible.
    Pause here, and be renewed and restored.
    Opening | By Linda Hart | December 13, 2023 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Advent, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Journey, Self-Care, Worship