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  • What if each of us made a lifetime commitment to get free and to bring others with us?
    Reflection | By Lindasusan Ulrich | February 12, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Arts & Music, Body, Direct Experience, Freedom, Friendship, Letting Go, Living Our Faith, Worship
  • 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, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • In the midst of the anger and frustration is hope—hope that we are here, hope that a loving world is indeed possible, hope in the faith that love can and will triumph over hate.
    Prayer | By Andrew Weber | February 5, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Anger, Despair, Dissent, Grief, Hope, Justice, Living Our Faith, Love, Politics, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • 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, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • Choice by choice, we make an effort to live out what we say we want, and who we claim to be.
    Reflection | By Erika Hewitt | February 5, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Animals, Faith, Integrity, Interdependence, Living Our Faith, Playfulness, Relationships, Religion, Worship
  • We light this chalice for the Earth, of which we all are part; we pledge to care for what it needs and hold it in our heart.
    Chalice Lighting | By Adena Dannouf | January 31, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Children's / Religious Education Sunday, Earth, Earth Day, Interdependence, Nature, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • In each breath we take, may we remember that the work of love, justice, and healing is ours to continue—both here and beyond these walls.
    Chalice Extinguishing | By Craig Rowland | January 30, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Business Meetings, Community, Courage, Healing, Justice, Love, Transformation, Truth, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • As we light this chalice, may each breath remind us of the sacred rhythm of life, the pulse of creation, and the power we hold to shape the world around us.
    Chalice Lighting | By Craig Rowland | January 30, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Business Meetings, Community, Courage, Despair, Fear, Healing, Love, Spiritual Practice, Strength, Transformation, Truth, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • Blessed are the unfocused, for they notice the sparks of divinity that illuminate the world.…
    Blessing | January 30, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Christianity, Diversity, Grace, Identity, Imagination, Inclusion, Spirituality, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • 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, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • Hope is challenging, if not impossible, to grasp alone.
    Reflection | By Oscar Sinclair | January 29, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Worship
  • 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, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • Beloved Child — May you know great love; may you feel deep joy; may you understand the work of justice and the light of truth.
    Prayer | By Karishma Gottfried | January 27, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Child Dedication, Community, Home, Joy, Justice, Love, Truth, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • Love begets love, and it is love that lights our chalice.
    Chalice Lighting | By anastasia birosh | January 27, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Community, Freedom, Love, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • May we become quiet enough and still enough to notice the call deep within us that lures us towards what matters most, this call that lures us towards freedom and purpose.
    Prayer | By Kate Steinberg | January 27, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Awe, Calling, Connections, Contemplation, Empathy, Freedom, Gratitude, Listening, Purpose, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • Liberation is the product of freedom.
    Reading | By Emilie M. Townes | January 22, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Anti-Oppression, Christianity, Freedom, Religion, Transformation, Wholeness, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • Holy one, for you I will watch and wait.
    Reflection | By Susan Maginn | January 22, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Worship
  • Anger is not at all what people think it is. Anger has been kind and caring to me.
    Reflection | By Julie Yeeun Kim | January 15, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Activism, America, Anger, Christianity, Immigration, Politics, Race/Ethnicity, Resilience, Spirituality, Worship
  • Yule is a time to rest and settle into the darkness.
    Meditation | By Cyndi Simpson | January 13, 2025 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Balance, Growth, Journey, Letting Go, Meaning, Nature, Silence, Spiritual Practice, Winter, Winter Solstice / Yule, WorshipWeb, Worship
  • Joy arises like a gift, beyond my own deserving.
    Reflection | By DanaLee Simon | January 8, 2025 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Abundance, Acceptance, Aging, Anger, Balance, Choice, Imagination, Joy, Resilience, Worship

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