Reflections for Worship

Reflection

• "Change" Is a Word on Wheels

  
  "Change" Is a Word on Wheels (Braver/Wiser)

  by DeReau K. Farrar

  Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Challenge, Change, Direct Experience, Humanism, Integrity, Living Our Faith, Secular, Self-Respect, Transformation, Unitarian Universalism

• A Cause for Thanksgiving?

  
  A Cause for Thanksgiving? (Braver/Wiser)

  by Daniel Gregoire

  Tagged as: America, Anti-Oppression, Direct Experience, History, Indigenous American, Responsibility, Thanksgiving

• A Different Kind of Peace

  
  A Different Kind of Peace (Braver/Wiser)

  by Misha Sanders

  Tagged as: Caring, Limitations, Self-Care, Self-Respect

• A Place at the Table

  
  A Place at the Table (WorshipWeb)

  by Christopher A Rothbauer

  Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Acceptance, Activism, Anti-Oppression, Hospitality, Inclusion, Justice, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Pride Sunday, Unitarian Universalism

• A Story Inherited

  
  A Story Inherited (WorshipWeb)

  by Jabari S. Jones

  Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), America, Anti-Oppression, Direct Experience, Humanism, Identity, Multiculturalism, Race/Ethnicity, Secular, #BlackLivesMatter

• All Our Relations

  
  All Our Relations (Braver/Wiser)

  by Marisol Caballero

  Tagged as: Acceptance, Caring, Children, Family, Fathers, Forgiveness, Generations, Humanism, International, Mothers, Secular

• Amen-Peanut Butter-Eyeballs

  
  Amen-Peanut Butter-Eyeballs (Braver/Wiser)

  by Christian Schmidt

  Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Children, Direct Experience, Parents, Playfulness, Unitarian Universalism

• An Adequate Christmas

  
  An Adequate Christmas (Braver/Wiser)

  by Jake Morrill

  Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Advent, Balance, Challenge, Choice, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Courage, Direct Experience, Family, God, Self-Care, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Thanksgiving, Winter Solstice / Yule

• An Unlikely Teacher of Love

  
  An Unlikely Teacher of Love (Braver/Wiser)

  by Maureen Killoran

  Tagged as: Acceptance, Animals, Direct Experience, Love, Relationships, Secular

• Angry Birds

  
  Angry Birds (Braver/Wiser)

  by Yuri Yamamoto

  Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), America, Animals, Anti-Oppression, Community, Direct Experience, Earth, Earth-Centered, Fear, Inclusion, Nature, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Race/Ethnicity, Self-Respect

• Another Human Miracle

  
  Another Human Miracle (Braver/Wiser)

  by Monica Dobbins

  Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Community, Direct Experience, Friendship, Hope, Humanism, Relationships, Science, Secular, Vulnerability

• Another, Truer Song

  
  Another, Truer Song (Braver/Wiser)

  by Elea Kemler

  Tagged as: Children, Depression, Direct Experience, Family, Healing, Humanism, Illness, Mental Illness, Mothers, Presence, Secular, Unitarian Universalism

• At Times, Look Up

  
  At Times, Look Up (Braver/Wiser)

  by Daniel Gregoire

• Be a Blessing

  
  Be a Blessing (Braver/Wiser)

  by S.J. Butler

  Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Acceptance, Children, Compassion, Direct Experience, Humanism, Mothers, Multiculturalism, Parents, Secular

• Becoming a "Real" American

  
  Becoming a "Real" American (Braver/Wiser)

  by Yuri Yamamoto

  Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), America, Culture, Direct Experience, Identity, Immigration, International, Letting Go, Multiculturalism, Race/Ethnicity, Transformation

• Between Wonder and Fear

  
  Between Wonder and Fear (Braver/Wiser)

  by Elizabeth Harding

  Tagged as: Awe, Death, Direct Experience, Fear, Humanism, Joy, Secular, Wonder

• Big Shoes to Fill

  
  Big Shoes to Fill (Braver/Wiser)

  by Rayla D. Mattson

  Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Body, Children, Choice, Direct Experience, Generations, History, Parents, Privilege

• Black Women Worry More

  
  Black Women Worry More (WorshipWeb)

  by Rosemary Bray McNatt

  Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 6th Principle (World Community), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), America, Anti-Oppression, Direct Experience, Family, Fear, Home, Humanism, Multiculturalism, Oppression, Privilege, Race/Ethnicity, Secular, Unitarian Universalism, #BlackLivesMatter

• Blessed Are the Magic-Makers

  
  Blessed Are the Magic-Makers (Braver/Wiser)

  by Teresa Honey Youngblood

  Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Children, Choice, Direct Experience, Discernment, Earth, Joy, Nature, Playfulness, Salvation

• Blessed Curses, Cursed Blessings

  
  Blessed Curses, Cursed Blessings (Braver/Wiser)

  by Becky Brooks

  Tagged as: Abundance, Direct Experience, Empathy, Family, Gratitude, Home, Letting Go, Poverty

• Blue Sky Returning

  
  Blue Sky Returning (Braver/Wiser)

  by Lindasusan Ulrich

  Tagged as: Beauty, Direct Experience, Earth, Earth-Centered, Humanism, Nature, Searching, Secular, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Spring, Vernal Equinox

• Both the Burning and the Light

  
  Both the Burning and the Light (Braver/Wiser)

  by Sean Parker Dennison

  Tagged as: Activism, Anger, Anti-Oppression, Arts & Music, Despair, Direct Experience, Humanism, Identity, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Secular

• Brilliant Collisions

  
  Brilliant Collisions (Braver/Wiser)

  by Lindasusan Ulrich

  Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Animals, Children, Direct Experience, Family, Humanism, Love, Mystery, Parents, Playfulness, Secular

• Bruh

  
  Bruh (Braver/Wiser)

  by DeReau K. Farrar

  Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), America, Direct Experience, Fathers, Friendship, Identity, Parents, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Race/Ethnicity, Solidarity

• Building a Common Life

  
  Building a Common Life (Braver/Wiser)

  by Elea Kemler

  Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Challenge, Community, Conflict, Democracy, Direct Experience, Humanism, Interdependence, Relationships, Secular, Seven Principles, Unitarian Universalism

• Christmas Is Subversive

  
  Christmas Is Subversive (WorshipWeb)

  by Kendyl R Gibbons

  Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 6th Principle (World Community), Activism, Advent, Anti-Oppression, Change, Christianity, Christmas Eve / Christmas, Creativity, Direct Experience, Hope, Tradition

• Confessing Communities

  
  Confessing Communities (Braver/Wiser)

  by Robin Tanner

  Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Character, Christianity, Community, Conscience, Direct Experience, Honesty, Humility

• Courage Requires Vulnerability

  
  Courage Requires Vulnerability (WorshipWeb)

  by Marisol Caballero

  Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Anti-Oppression, Courage, Identity, Indigenous American, International, Multiculturalism, Race/Ethnicity, Unitarian Universalism, Vulnerability

• Crossing Thresholds

  
  Crossing Thresholds (Braver/Wiser)

  by Daniel Gregoire

• Delicious Ambiguity

  
  Delicious Ambiguity (Braver/Wiser)

  by Marisol Caballero

  Tagged as: Acceptance, Direct Experience, Faith, Letting Go, Mystery, Trust

• Do the Next Thing with Love

  
  Do the Next Thing with Love (Braver/Wiser)

  by Becky Brooks

  Tagged as: Anti-Oppression, Caring, Children, Community, Direct Experience, Disaster or Crisis, Humanism, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Love, Multiculturalism, Parents, Secular, Unitarian Universalism, Violence

• Downrange of Mystery

  
  Downrange of Mystery (Braver/Wiser)

  by Rebekah Savage

  Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Body, Caring, Direct Experience, Hospitality, Humanism, Military, Ministry, Service

• Endearments

  
  Endearments (WorshipWeb)

  by Lilia Cuervo

  Tagged as: Aging, Children, Death, Direct Experience, Family, Generations, Humanism, Love, Mother's Day, Mothers, Secular

• Expect Nothing

  
  Expect Nothing (Braver/Wiser)

  by Robin Tanner

  Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Atheism, Conflict, Contemplation, Direct Experience, Faith, Humanism, Humility, Personal Stories, Searching, Secular, Wisdom

• Faith in Small Actions

  
  Faith in Small Actions (Braver/Wiser)

  by Tim Atkins

• Faithful

  
  Faithful (Braver/Wiser)

  by Robin Tanner

  Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Children, Direct Experience, Faith, Living Our Faith, Parents, Spiritual Practice, Violence

• Fear Can't Last Forever

  
  Fear Can't Last Forever (Braver/Wiser)

  by Robin Tanner

  Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Choice, Direct Experience, Fear, Hope, Humanism, Illness, Limitations, Parents, Psychology, Searching, Secular, Solidarity, Worry

• Finding Our Way Out

  
  Finding Our Way Out (Braver/Wiser)

  by Karen G. Johnston

  Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, Fear, Freedom, Imagination, Interdependence, Ministry, Nature, Salvation

• Freedom to Doubt

  
  Freedom to Doubt (WorshipWeb)

  by Paul Stephan Dodenhoff

  Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Awe, Challenge, Direct Experience, Doubt, Freedom, Humanism, Integrity, Living Our Faith, Mystery, Secular, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism

• Go Play

  
  Go Play (Braver/Wiser)

  by Marisol Caballero

• God and Guns

  
  God and Guns (Braver/Wiser)

  by Teresa Honey Youngblood

• God has a fondness for what is fragile

  
  God has a fondness for what is fragile (WorshipWeb)

  by Jan Richardson

  Tagged as: Advent, Brokenness, Christianity, Christmas Eve / Christmas, God, Immanence, Relationships, Vulnerability

• God Is Present

  
  God Is Present (WorshipWeb)

  by Robin Bartlett

  Tagged as: Advent, Christianity, Despair, God, Hope, Inclusion, Presence

• God Manifest

  
  God Manifest (Braver/Wiser)

  by Nathan Ryan

  Tagged as: Body, Children, Direct Experience, God, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Women

• Good Enough

  
  Good Enough (Braver/Wiser)

  by Lindasusan Ulrich

  Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Acceptance, Balance, Direct Experience, Forgiveness, Humanism, Letting Go, Psychology, Secular, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Worth

• Good Intentions and Incomplete Efforts

  
  Good Intentions and Incomplete Efforts (Braver/Wiser)

  by Sean Parker Dennison

  Tagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 6th Principle (World Community), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Anti-Oppression, Brokenness, Compassion, Conscience, Direct Experience, Forgiveness, Growth, Honesty, Humanism, Multiculturalism, Secular, Unitarian Universalism, Vulnerability

• Grateful to Our Teachers

  
  Grateful to Our Teachers (Braver/Wiser)

  by Seanan R. Holland

  Tagged as: Direct Experience, Growth, Humanism, Humility, Inclusion, Military, Privilege, Secular

• Green Beans

  
  Green Beans (Braver/Wiser)

  by Teresa Honey Youngblood

  Tagged as: Abundance, Direct Experience, Earth, Food, Food Justice, Generosity, Humanism, Nature, Race/Ethnicity, Stewardship, Work

• Here. Now. You.

  
  Here. Now. You. (Braver/Wiser)

  by Kat Liu

  Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Body, Buddhism, Direct Experience, Humility, Letting Go, Mindfulness, Patience, Secular, Spiritual Practice, Worry

• Hold On

  
  Hold On (Braver/Wiser)

  by Robin Tanner

  Tagged as: America, Anti-Oppression, Commitment, Democracy, Despair, Hope, Relationships, Secular