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  • Outdoors, a bench faces a wintry scene of snow, dead grass, and bare trees. A child sits with their back to the camera. They have dark hair pulled back, and are wearing headphones and a blue hooded coat.
    May you know, deep in your bones, that none of this is your fault. May your heart remain soft enough to love and strong enough to protect itself.
    Blessing | By Tandi Rogers | September 22, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Addiction/Recovery, Children, Healing, Parents, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Worship
  • A rough-hewn bronze statue of a man embracing a child who is just a little shorter than he is. In the background, blurry, are some tree branches, a signboard, and a building. The statue is Charlie Mackesy’s “Return of the Prodigal Son,” found outside Holy Trinity Brompton Anglican Church.
    Addiction thrives in isolation and shame—two things that are deeply opposed to the message of Jesus.… The Parable of the Prodigal Child and addiction share profound themes of isolation, shame, and the redemptive power of love and community.
    Sermon | By Phoenix Bell-Shelton Biggs | September 17, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Addiction/Recovery, Community, Compassion, Grace, Healing, Love, Pain, Shame, Trauma, Worship
  • A lone person walking on the red-tiled floor of the Great Hall of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. They are walking through a patch of the floor that is reflecting light from a window that is out of the frame. The person looks blurry and somewhat disjointed because they were moving while the camera’s shutter was open.
    We need church community to be a space where people can speak honestly with one another about their experience—whether in recovery, in addiction, or even in relapse.
    Sermon | By Lane-Mairead Campbell | September 17, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Acceptance, Addiction/Recovery, Brokenness, Caring, Community, God, Interdependence, Living Our Faith, Personal Stories, Solitude, Worship
  • A person with dark skin, wearing denim overalls, is partially seen kneeling on the floor. They are holding a long-handled paintbrush and dabbing yellow paint on a paint palette that rests on the floor, at the level of the camera. They appear to be in the middle of a painting in a studio.
    The freedom to seek, discover, and accept others’ truths is a sweet path to follow.
    Reflection | By Clint Nicely | September 17, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Arts & Music, Beauty, Creativity, Discernment, Freedom, Individualism, Personal Stories, Worship
  • The head and upper torso of a large statue of a woman with her eyes shut and a calm expression on her face. The grey concrete of the statue has large and small cracks throughout, and the woman looks as if she is pulling open a crack in her chest. Inside, we see ferns growing. The statue is “Thrive,” by Daniel Popper.
    All of us are worthy of salvation because all of us are beloved. All of us are just as human as everyone else: just as wounded, hurting, and healing; just as capable of love and transformation and transcendence; just as able to be who we are and who we are called to be.
    Sermon | By David Schwartz | September 15, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Addiction/Recovery, Brokenness, Community, Hope, Love, Personal Stories, Salvation, Transformation, Universalism, Wholeness, Worship
  • A flower with 17 thin purple petals surrounding a cluster of yellow stamens — a Balkan anemone — rests on a piece of glass that has cracks radiating outwards from the flower.
    It is an act of love for yourself and for each other to come back home to being a regular person: to let go of pretend-perfection and certainty.
    Reading | By David Schwartz | September 15, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Acceptance, Addiction/Recovery, Blame, Brokenness, Integrity, Love, Shame, Vulnerability, Wholeness, Worship, Worth
  • A black-and-white photo of two women with long hair, silhouetted by the window behind them. They're sitting on chairs facing one another, bent over and holding hands, with heads bowed in prayer.
    I trust your love to heal my wounds. I trust your love is flowing through me, and from me to those around me.
    Prayer | By Isabel Call | September 12, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Abundance, Addiction/Recovery, Direct Experience, God, Healing, Love, Spiritual Practice, Trust, Worship
  • A preteen child, sitting on a step, hugs their knees and rests the side of their face on their knees, as if expressing sadness. An adult sitting next to them attends to the child, one hand on their knee and another around their back.
    We're only as safe as the people we’re willing to protect.
    Reflection | By Samara Powers | September 10, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: #LGBTQ, #LoveResists, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Activism, Challenge, Commitment, Conscience, Direct Experience, Humanism, Integrity, Justice, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Living Our Faith, Oppression, Solidarity, Unitarian Universalism, Worship
  • A young person, seen only from their neck to their chest, has their palm flat against their heart. In the blurred background, an adult sitting up on a couch appears to be doing the same thing.
    Hold us as we learn to show ourselves the kindness we seek to model for those we love.
    Reflection | By Audrey McCann | September 3, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Body, Children, Choice, Direct Experience, Empathy, Forgiveness, Healing, Humanism, Self-Care, Spiritual Practice, Transformation, Trauma, Worship
  • The hand of a white child is securing a sticker with the words “Love is love” on it to a metal pole.
    We pray that all people can have what they need and know how much they are loved.
    Prayer | By Liz Weber | September 2, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Children's / Religious Education Sunday, Children's Sabbath, Community, Happiness, Love, Sadness, Worship
  • The back end of the underside of a surfboard. The visible edge of the board is yellow, and the surface of the underside is green with a decorative pattern in black. The surfboard is resting on a wooden deck made out of many thin light brown wooden planks.
    When we have a hard thing to do, it’s a good thing to have the right supplies—the necessary equipment—to help us get it done.
    Time for All Ages | By Karen G. Johnston | September 2, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Animals, Community, Earth, Friendship, Humanism, Interdependence, Love, Nature, Science, Winter, Worship
  • Against a deep black background, swirls of smoke are illuminated by red and purple lighting, creating an abstract pattern.
    This ritual of our faith reminds our subtle-and-crashing-about beings that we are part of a collective— a community of care and connection, courage and questions, scared and sacred together.
    Chalice Lighting | By Deanna Vandiver | August 29, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Community, Connections, Courage, Creativity, Sacred, Worship
  • A painting of a small fountain in a pond. On the surface of the water, ripples radiate outward from the fountain. Beneath the ripples are bright colors forming indistinct shapes. Several small golden squares among the colors give a hint of regularity.
    How do I leave behind the pain, the disappointment, the anger, at what has been? The unconscious cruelty, the negating, the selfish harm I have walked through, knowing the possibility always exists that it could happen again…
    Prayer | By Manish Mishra-Marzetti | August 29, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Caring, Community, Connections, Goddess, Growth, Pain, Suffering, Transformation, Violence, Worship
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 patch of asphalt with a crack running through it, and a beige-colored bandage applied over one piece of the crack.
    May you find peace even though I cannot be its source.
    Blessing | By Rumni Saha | August 10, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Compassion, Forgiveness, Healing, Humility, Imagination, Letting Go, Psychology, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Worship
  • A close up of a carpet of dried, rust-colored leaves on the ground.
    We’re going to let go of what we don’t need for this season of our lives.
    Ritual | By Alessandra Nysether-Santos | July 23, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Earth, Imagination, Letting Go, Limitations, Nature, New Year
  • 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
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