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God, Your creation is not yet done creating you.Opening | By Gretchen Haley | July 24, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: God, Goddess, Imagination, Immanence, Playfulness
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Remind us that resilience is in our bones, that peace will prevail on earthPrayer | By Douglas Taylor | May 22, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Brokenness, Despair, God, Healing, Hope
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You have given us a day unique from any other.Prayer | By Adam Slate | March 9, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Calling, Challenge, Character, God, Growth, Living Our Faith, Purpose, Unitarian Universalism, WorshipWeb, Worship
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If love is a law, how may I follow it with more faithfulness?Reflection | By Joanna Fontaine Crawford | December 21, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Arts & Music, Christianity, Conscience, God, Justice, Worship
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You are loved beyond your wildest imaginings by the spirit of creation.Reading | By Kate Landis | October 18, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Acceptance, Awe, Connections, Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, God, Interdependence, Love, Mental Health, Mystery, Wonder
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I choose to believe in the God who makes me kinder.Reading | By Kate Landis | October 18, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Compassion, Depression, Direct Experience, God, Imagination, Mental Health, Unitarian Universalism
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The flame that is our promise of universal salvation can never be extinguished.Chalice Extinguishing | By roddy bell-shelton biggs | October 18, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Christianity, God, Living Our Faith
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As we gather in this sacred moment, the Holy Spirit settles among her people.Chalice Lighting | By roddy bell-shelton biggs | October 18, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Christianity, Communion (Christian), God, Love
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I wasn’t really “born this way.” I grew this way.Reflection | By Heather McDuffee | September 28, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #Pride, Choice, Coming Out, Friendship, God, Identity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Marriage, National Coming Out Day, Transformation, Trust, Worship
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Coming out is vulnerable, intimate, and holy.Homily | By Heather McDuffee | September 27, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #Pride, Acceptance, Christianity, Coming Out, Courage, Direct Experience, Family, Friendship, God, Identity, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, National Coming Out Day, Transformation, WorshipWeb, Worship
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We are that, says a little acorn pointing toward an oak tree.Prayer | By Arif Mamdani | June 2, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Abundance, Generations, God, Love, Transcendence, Transformation, WorshipWeb, Worship
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I want to be shaped in a way that lets me serve the eternal.Reflection | By Jake Morrill | September 22, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Contemplation, God, Meaning, Presence, Purpose, Transcendence, Worship
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May we know that our interconnectedness is a miracle, and may it be a refuge for us.Prayer | By Carter Smith | September 15, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #COVID19, 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Compassion, God, Grace, Immanence, Presence, WorshipWeb, Worship
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I am no longer a victim of change: I am shaping the world that is to come.Reflection | By Martha Durkee-Neuman | April 28, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Beginnings, Change, Direct Experience, Ending, God, Patience, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Worship
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Inhale—you are Creation. Exhale—you are Creator.Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | April 19, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Body, Earth-Centered, God, Goddess, Mystery, WorshipWeb, Worship
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"Most of us have been led to believe that prophets 'foretell' the future. That is true, and it is also misleading. It is not the point here. Prophets are seers of the big patterns; they see what is always and forever true. Prophets like Isaiah know how God acts by watching and listening, and they...Quote | By Richard Rohr | February 25, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Christianity, Contemplation, Courage, Discernment, God, Lent, Revelation
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We are left with a new sense of ourselves as God’s people.Affirmation | By Walter Brueggemann | February 19, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Christianity, God, Lent, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, WorshipWeb, Worship
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The wilderness alongside every moment, sprawling in each direction, holds more than the silence that theologians imagine of God.Reflection | By Jake Morrill | November 25, 2020 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #COVID19, Contemplation, Death, Direct Experience, Earth, Earth-Centered, God, Imagination, Nature, Transcendence, Worship
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Sometimes, there is no reprieve from the pain of this world. Sometimes, it is too big and too obvious to ignore.Reflection | By HP Rivers | October 21, 2020 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Caring, Christianity, Connections, Family, Generations, God, Goddess, Paganism, Presence, Sorrow, Spiritual Practice, Worship
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Advent is about the new story being written in our lives.Quote | By Jes Kast | September 10, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Advent, Christianity, God, Hope, Spirituality, Vulnerability, WorshipWeb, Worship
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