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  • It is my only memory of a lesson from Kindergarten Sunday School class. Maybe it’s the only one that counts.
    Reflection | By Misha Sanders | August 1, 2018 | From Braver/Wiser
    Tagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Acceptance, Children, Direct Experience, Forgiveness, God, Grace, Imagination, Love, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Relationships, Transcendence, Unitarian Universalism
  • Calling to Unburden Our play is marked by merriment, but beneath that looms the Other: our worry; our sorrow; our shame, our guilt, our grief. Let us surrender all that to the One who loves us beyond measure, the One who heals us, the One who makes us whole. Silent Prayer Prayer I have failed. I...
    Prayer of Confession | By Beth Merrill Neel | August 24, 2016 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Brokenness, Christianity, Forgiveness, God, Healing, Humility, Salvation
  • In Jewish tradition, the four chapters of the Book of Jonah are read aloud at Yom Kippur. Jonah is a minor prophet in the Hebrew Bible but he has a big message. Some of you may know his story. Jonah is sent by God to Nineveh to warn the people that if they do not change their ways they will be...
    Story | By Joanne Giannino | September 22, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Anger, Community, Compromise, Forgiveness, God, Good, Judaism, Transformation, Yom Kippur
  • Image | By AmyBeth Gibbs | September 17, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Awe, Beginnings, Forgiveness, God, Judaism, Love, Rosh Hashanah, Tradition, Wonder, Yom Kippur
  • O Thou unseen source of peace and holiness, we come into thy secret place to be filled with thy pure and solemn light. As we come to thee, we remember that we have been drawn aside from the straight and narrow way; that we have not walked lovingly with each other and humbly with thee; that we have...
    Prayer | By Van Ogden Vogt | August 31, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Discernment, Forgiveness, God, Healing, Humility, Purpose, Unitarianism
  • Sometimes I offer to make a deal with God. “I’ll tell you about my resistance to prayer,” I say, “If you’ll explain the Holocaust.” God declines to comment, and the lawyers make their prepared statements on his behalf. I kind of hate when he does that. I love God best, I confess, when I...
    Poetry | By Bob Janis-Dillon | June 15, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Doubt, Forgiveness, God, Playfulness, Searching, Spiritual Practice, WorshipWeb
  • God, make me a channel of thy peace, that where there is hatred, I may sow love; where there is wrong, the spirit of forgiveness; where there is discord, harmony; where there is error, truth; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there are shadows, light; where there is...
    Prayer | By St. Francis of Assisi | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Balance, Christianity, Forgiveness, God, Peace, Responsibility, Service
  • Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is sadness, joy; where there is darkness, light....
    Prayer | By St. Francis of Assisi | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Balance, Christianity, Despair, Forgiveness, God, Healing, Peace, Wholeness
  • To pass the peace is a revolutionary act. It means to trust the outsider we fear, to wish well those who have hurt us; and to forgive at last ourselves. To offer the blessing to those around you is to love your neighbor and yourself and to be at peace with God. Pax vobiscum. Peace. Peace.
    Closing | By Clarke Dewey Wells | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Body, Connections, Forgiveness, God, Peace, Trust
  • Universal Spirit of love, O God within each one of us, whose power reaches to the stars, whose love connects us one to another and to all creation—we are one. We cry out with the pain of this broken world. With all our capacity for love, we ask: why can't we wrap this world in love and bring...
    Prayer | By Dorothy May Emerson | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Brokenness, Connections, Forgiveness, God, Healing, Love, Power
  • Shall we pray? Too often, God, we have ignored you. We have lived as though you didn't matter. We have denied the new life that you would have us embrace; we have perpetuated that which depletes life. Forgive us for hesitating when we knew action was the needed response. Forgive us also for...
    Prayer | By Amy McKenzie | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Balance, Connections, Fear, Forgiveness, God, Hope, Letting Go
  • O Thou, whose kingdom is within, may all thy names be hallowed. May no one of them be turned against the others to divide those who address thee. May thy presence be made known to us in mercy, beauty, love and justice. May thy kingdom come to be in the life of all humankind....
    Meditation | By Jacob Trapp | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Christianity, Forgiveness, God, Presence, Salvation, Searching
  • Indwelling God, who art infused throughout all existence, we hallow thee with many names. Thy Kingdom is within the human heart. We accept life for all that it can be, on earth as throughout all creation....
    Meditation | By Fred F Keip, Jr | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Christianity, Forgiveness, God, Immanence, Reverence, Sacred, Unity
  • May God—the mind that sees our faults, the tears that sting our wounds, the laugh that soothes our aches, and the love that redeems us all—be illuminated by the light we kindle in this house of faith.
    Chalice Lighting | By Max A Coots | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Balance, Brokenness, Caring, Compassion, Despair, Faith, Forgiveness, God, Grace, Healing
  • God of goodness, you are the life of life, the breath of all, the eternal yet ever-changing wholeness into which infinity is poured and from which life is born anew. To you I offer myself, with you I simply am; as you I amaze myself with energy, compassion and calm....
    Meditation | By Lucinda S Duncan | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Courage, Forgiveness, God, Letting Go, Unitarian Universalism

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