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  • A brown-skinned person wearing a puffy jacket has their back to the camera, viewing lush mountains covered in coniferous trees in Dharamshala, India.
    Holiness is within us; wholeness is around us.
    Reflection | By Rumni Saha | December 11, 2024 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Buddhism, Worship
  • The front cover of Tricia Hersey’s book “Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto”
    Rest is not a luxury, a privilege, or a bonus we must wait for once we are burned out.
    Quote | By Tricia Hersey | December 10, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Body, Culture, Healing, Oppression, Self-Care, Worship, Worth
  • A small box made out of wooden slats sits on a grassy lawn, with a light brown teddy bear beside it. The box has a black stenciled sign on it labeled “TOOLS,” and various tools — a hammer, pliers, snippers, a jar of nails, and others — are visible between the slats and over the edge of the box.
    An activity to help congregants of all ages remember the tools available to help get through difficult times.
    Time for All Ages | By Tara Humphries | December 10, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Brokenness, Creativity, Healing, Imagination, Interdependence, Mental Health, Playfulness, Resilience, Self-Care, Spiritual Practice, Worship
  • At night, from the vantage point of a dark stretch of beach, there are three light sources visible: On the left there is a lighthouse, shining bright streams of light in several directions; on the right, the moon glows behind a light cloud cover; and in the middle, we see fainter light from several houses farther down the coast. The foam from the sea is also visible, and shows the shoreline stretching in a straight line from the lower right of the photo to the houses in the middle of the photo.
    We cannot know what all the year may bring, and would we heed the prophecy if we could?
    Chalice Lighting | By Mary Shelden | December 10, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Caring, Equity, Generations, Justice, Love, New Year, Worship
  • The front cover of Tricia Hersey’s book “Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto”
    Our liberation is deeply connected to the portal of healing we can tap into when we rest. Wherever our bodies are, we can find rest, ease, and liberation.
    Quote | By Tricia Hersey | December 10, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Body, Culture, Freedom, Healing, Oppression, Rights, Self-Care, 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
  • In the foreground, the edge of a Christmas tree decorated with baubles and a blurred string of white lights. In the background, a blurred grouping of people indoors, as if at a restaurant or party.
    The winter holidays are beautiful and celebratory; they’re also hard and complicated.
    Reflection | By Kim Mason | December 4, 2024 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Advent, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice / Yule, Worship
  • The front cover of Tricia Hersey’s book “Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto”
    Embrace knowing that you have been manipulated and scammed by a violent system as powerful evidence. Now with this knowledge you can grieve, repair, rest, and heal.
    Quote | By Tricia Hersey | December 3, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Body, Culture, Grief, Healing, Oppression, Revelation, Shame, Work, Worship
  • In a darkened room, a chalice glows on a desk, with six crayons arranged around it like the rays of the sun. The light from the chalice illuminates several objects on the desk, including a small framed “children’s version” of the seven principles, a polished spherical crystal, a LEGO figurine of a person in a jumpsuit, a flat white-and-silver dove ornament, several books, and a jar with stalks of dried lavender.
    Meet me in the heartbeat between what has been and what will be; meet me in the flicker of our eternal flame. We need not face this moment alone.
    Prayer | By Helen “HP” Rivers | December 3, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Change, Children, Community, Hope, Journey, Joy, Playfulness, Sorrow, Worship
  • A close-up of an outstretched brown-skinned hand, with salt slipping between the fingers and pouring down in a stream. The salt is brightly lit, and stands out clearly from the black background of the photo.
    Spirit of Transformation, may our hearts break open and stretch out to join with the hearts of others who yearn for a freer world…
    Prayer | By AJ van Tine | December 3, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Beauty, Body, Community, Compassion, Despair, Fear, Grief, Hope, Joy, Transformation, Worship
  • The front cover of Tricia Hersey’s book “Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto”
    Resting as a form of resistance will be part of a lifelong unraveling. A mind shift, a slow and consistent practice filled with grace. We must imagine a new way, and rest is the foundation for this invention.
    Quote | By Tricia Hersey | November 27, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Body, Culture, Grace, Healing, Oppression, Trauma, Work, Worship
  • The front cover of Tricia Hersey’s book “Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto”
    Rest is a healing portal to our deepest selves. Rest is care. Rest is radical.… Rest is a form of resistance because it disrupts and pushes back against capitalism and white supremacy.
    Quote | By Tricia Hersey | November 27, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Body, Caring, Community, Culture, Healing, Interdependence, Oppression, Sacred, Worship
  • Outdoors in a field, a person crouches near the ground. In their hand is a clump of soil, which they're displaying to the camera.
    May we recognize that our gardens and our lives can grow abundantly, even when we don’t understand how.
    Reflection | By Rayla D. Mattson | November 27, 2024 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: Worship
  • Outdoors, an older man and a younger woman sit next to each other. She is holding a folded book or pamplet, and he's looking at it while talking.
    There are many ways to connect.
    Reflection | By Jo VonRue | November 20, 2024 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Connections, Courage, Empathy, Friendship, Gratitude, Personal Stories, Worship
  • The bronze statue of Atlas that stands above the entrance of the central train station in Frankfurt. Atlas struggles to hold the Earth — with a band of figures representing the twelve astrological signs surrounding the equator — on his back and shoulders. Atlas is aided by allegorical figures representing Steam and Electricity.
    We call upon all the transcendent gifts of renewal to be bestowed upon us, for an energizing renewal to fill us in all the ways that serve our lagging spirits when our own resilience wanes.
    Meditation | By Rebekah Savage | November 19, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Brokenness, Challenge, Grace, Healing, Love, Oppression, Pain, Resilience, Stress, Wholeness, Worship
  • A child — perhaps eight years old or so, wearing shorts and a short-sleeve shirt, and with their arms raised — is standing on a ridge, silhouetted by the sun. The sky is pale blue with scattered clouds, and the sun is low in the sky, but still above the horizon.
    May we be bold in our faith, declaring that Gone are the Days! We are Unitarian Universalists. We are the blessings we seek for this world and the Beloved Community we are building.
    Prayer | By Rebekah Savage | November 19, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Community, Credo, Grace, Growth, Progress, Self-Care, Worship, Worth
  • An overhead view of a few square feet of a street paved with concrete bricks, showing the yellow flower of a dandelion growing in the space between two bricks. The flower is on the right side of the photograph, and its color matches a yellow stripe painted on the pavement, which fills the left third of the photo.
    Spirit of Love, come alongside with all the holy nudges that we need, so we may live in such a way that we celebrate all the blessings that we have been given. So we may be the blessings in the world.
    Prayer | By Rebekah Savage | November 19, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Community, Grace, Gratitude, Grief, Hope, Justice, Living Our Faith, Love, Wholeness, 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
  • A portrait of John Angell James (1785–1859) by William Derby, painted circa 1830. James is a middle-aged white man with dark brown hair and with thin sideburns from his ears halfway across his cheeks to his mouth. He is wearing a thick black coat with wide lapels, and is sitting on a heavy wooden chair with wooden arms and red upholstery on the seat and back. Behind him is some red drapery.
    “I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” This quotation is often attributed to Edward Everett Hale, but WorshipWeb could find no evidence for this.
    Quote | November 18, 2024 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Accountability, Activism, Commitment, Individualism, Integrity, Responsibility, Worship
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