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  • I am praying again and how does one pray when unsure if anything hears? In the world I know as reliable and finite when time and matter cycle back and forth and I understand the answers to so many puzzles there are moments when knowing is nothing and I this accumulation of systems, histories...
    Poetry | By Barbara J Pescan | April 27, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Atheism, Direct Experience, Spiritual Practice, Truth, Wonder
  • Because of those who came before, we are;in spite of their failings, we believe;because of, and in spite of, the horizons of their vision,we, too, dream.Let us go remembering to praise,to live in the moment,to love mightily,to bow to the mystery.(No.680, Singing the Living Tradition)...
    Closing | By Barbara J Pescan | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Connections, Generations, Purpose, Tradition, Vision
  • One of the old ones stood up into the morning light and spoke to those who had come back to the river: "Now we have come again to this place; it is a good thing. My life apart from you is not as strong. "Yes, I have danced and I have told the stories at my own fire and I have sung to all the six...
    Opening | By Barbara J Pescan | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Buddhism, Connections, Friendship
  • In this familiar place, listen: to the sounds of breathing, creaking chairs, shuffling feet, clearing throats, and sighing all around Know that each breath, movement, the glance meant for you or intercepted holds a life within it....
    Prayer | By Barbara J Pescan | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Body, Community, Connections, Presence, Silence, Unitarian Universalism
  • Thou that hearest, listen -- In the beginning is the cry -- inarticulate -- inchoate -- essential. The primal cry of desire. Much later comes the word -- ordered -- various -- pattern on a dark glass....
    Meditation | By Barbara J Pescan | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Faith, Listening, Searching
  • Spirit of Life whom we have called by many names in thanksgiving and in anguish— Bless the poets and those who mourn Send peace for the soldiers who did not make the wars but whose lives were consumed by them Let strong trees grow above graves far from home Breathe through the arms of their...
    Prayer | By Barbara J Pescan | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWeb
    Tagged as: Conflict, Generations, Memorial Day, Peace, Service, War

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