![Image copyright UUA The purple WorshipWeb logo](/files/styles/max_320x320/public/png/w/ww_logo.png?itok=uwq6xUTt)
To search for resources that support March's Soul Matter theme of Transformation, toggle the red arrow below and search for Spiritual Themes of: Transformation, Change, Endings, Beginnings, Searching.
Toggle to filter resultsAvailable filters:
Changing a filter will refresh results (and remaining options) immediately. Searching by keyword or changing the number of items per page requires use of the "Search" button.
- #BlackLivesMatter (1)
- #COVID19 (1)
- 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity) (7)
- 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion) (9)
- 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth) (9)
- 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning) (8)
- 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy) (2)
- 6th Principle (World Community) (8)
- 7th Principle (Interconnected Web) (1)
- Abundance (1)
- Acceptance (5)
- Activism (3)
- Advent (2)
- Aging (1)
- Animal Blessing (1)
- Animals (1)
- Anti-Oppression (3)
- Arts & Music (1)
- Awe (4)
- Balance (1)
- Beauty (3)
- Beginnings (3)
- Belief (2)
- Birth (1)
- Body (3)
- Bridging Ceremony (1)
- Brokenness (1)
- Business Meetings (2)
- Calling (55)
- Canvass/Pledge (1)
- Caring (6)
- Challenge (5)
- Change (1)
- Character (3)
- Children (1)
- Choice (6)
- Christianity (6)
- Christmas Eve / Christmas (1)
- Coming-of-Age (1)
- Coming of Age (1)
- Commitment (6)
- Community (6)
- Compassion (1)
- Connections (2)
- Conscience (2)
- Contemplation (2)
- Courage (5)
- Covenant (1)
- Creativity (1)
- Death (2)
- Democracy (1)
- Despair (2)
- Dignity (1)
- Direct Experience (16)
- Disaster (1)
- Discernment (3)
- Diversity (2)
- Earth (2)
- Earth-Centered (1)
- Earth Day (1)
- Easter (3)
- Ending (1)
- Environment (2)
- Evil (1)
- Failure (1)
- Faith (4)
- Family (1)
- Fathers (1)
- Fear (1)
- Freedom (2)
- Friendship (1)
- Generations (3)
- Generosity (1)
- God (3)
- Good Friday (1)
- Governance (1)
- Grace (2)
- Gratitude (2)
- Growth (4)
- Healing (6)
- History (1)
- Homecoming / Ingathering (2)
- Hope (10)
- Humanism (6)
- Human Rights (1)
- Humility (2)
- Identity (2)
- IllUUmination (1)
- Imagination (2)
- Imbolc / Brighid's Day / Candlemas (1)
- Inclusion (1)
- Installations (3)
- Interdependence (3)
- Intimacy (1)
- Journey (4)
- Joy (1)
- Judaism (1)
- Justice (6)
- Justice Sunday (1)
- Kindness (1)
- Leadership (5)
- Letting Go (4)
- Limitations (1)
- Listening (6)
- Living Our Faith (5)
- Love (7)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday (1)
- Meaning (2)
- Military (1)
- Ministry (2)
- Mothers (1)
- Multiculturalism (1)
- Mystery (2)
- Nature (3)
- New Year (1)
- Ordinations (6)
- Paganism (1)
- Peace (4)
- Playfulness (2)
- Power (6)
- Presence (3)
- Progress (1)
- Prophetic Words & Deeds (9)
- Psychology (1)
- Purpose (12)
- Race/Ethnicity (1)
- Reconciliation (1)
- Redemption (1)
- Relationships (2)
- Respect (1)
- Responsibility (7)
- Reverence (1)
- Sacred (3)
- Sacrifice (3)
- Sadness (1)
- Searching (5)
- Secular (6)
- Self-Respect (1)
- Service (7)
- Seven Principles (2)
- Solidarity (2)
- Spirituality (3)
- Spiritual Practice (1)
- Stewardship (2)
- Strength (1)
- Success (1)
- Suffering (1)
- Teamwork (1)
- Tradition (1)
- Transcendence (5)
- Transformation (3)
- Trust (4)
- Truth (1)
- Unitarian Universalism (23)
- Unity (1)
- Universalism (1)
- Vision (10)
- Vulnerability (2)
- Wholeness (2)
- Winter Solstice / Yule (1)
- Wisdom (1)
- Wonder (4)
- Work (3)
- Worry (2)
- Worship (4)
- Worth (2)
- Yom Kippur (1)
- Young Adults (1)
- Youth/Teens (1)
- Advent (2)
- Animal Blessing (1)
- Bridging Ceremony (1)
- Business Meetings (2)
- Canvass/Pledge (1)
- Christmas Eve / Christmas (1)
- Coming of Age (1)
- Earth Day (1)
- Easter (3)
- Good Friday (1)
- Homecoming / Ingathering (2)
- IllUUmination (1)
- Imbolc / Brighid's Day / Candlemas (1)
- Installations (3)
- Justice Sunday (1)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday (1)
- New Year (1)
- Ordinations (6)
- Winter Solstice / Yule (1)
- Yom Kippur (1)
- Abundance (1)
- Acceptance (5)
- Activism (3)
- Aging (1)
- Animals (1)
- Anti-Oppression (3)
- Arts & Music (1)
- Awe (4)
- Balance (1)
- Beauty (3)
- Beginnings (3)
- Belief (2)
- Birth (1)
- Body (3)
- Brokenness (1)
- Caring (6)
- Challenge (5)
- Change (1)
- Character (3)
- Children (1)
- Choice (6)
- Coming-of-Age (1)
- Commitment (6)
- Community (6)
- Compassion (1)
- Connections (2)
- Conscience (2)
- Contemplation (2)
- Courage (5)
- Covenant (1)
- Creativity (1)
- Death (2)
- Democracy (1)
- Despair (2)
- Dignity (1)
- Disaster (1)
- Discernment (3)
- Diversity (2)
- Earth (2)
- Ending (1)
- Environment (2)
- Evil (1)
- Failure (1)
- Faith (4)
- Family (1)
- Fathers (1)
- Fear (1)
- Freedom (2)
- Friendship (1)
- Generations (3)
- Generosity (1)
- God (3)
- Governance (1)
- Grace (2)
- Gratitude (2)
- Growth (4)
- Healing (6)
- History (1)
- Hope (10)
- Human Rights (1)
- Humility (2)
- Identity (2)
- Imagination (2)
- Inclusion (1)
- Interdependence (3)
- Intimacy (1)
- Journey (4)
- Joy (1)
- Justice (6)
- Kindness (1)
- Leadership (5)
- Letting Go (4)
- Limitations (1)
- Listening (6)
- Living Our Faith (5)
- Love (7)
- Meaning (2)
- Military (1)
- Ministry (2)
- Mothers (1)
- Multiculturalism (1)
- Mystery (2)
- Nature (3)
- Peace (4)
- Playfulness (2)
- Power (6)
- Presence (3)
- Progress (1)
- Psychology (1)
- Purpose (12)
- Race/Ethnicity (1)
- Reconciliation (1)
- Redemption (1)
- Relationships (2)
- Respect (1)
- Responsibility (7)
- Reverence (1)
- Sacred (3)
- Sacrifice (3)
- Sadness (1)
- Searching (5)
- Self-Respect (1)
- Service (7)
- Solidarity (2)
- Spirituality (3)
- Spiritual Practice (1)
- Stewardship (2)
- Strength (1)
- Success (1)
- Suffering (1)
- Teamwork (1)
- Tradition (1)
- Transcendence (5)
- Transformation (3)
- Trust (4)
- Truth (1)
- Unity (1)
- Vision (10)
- Vulnerability (2)
- Wholeness (2)
- Wisdom (1)
- Wonder (4)
- Work (3)
- Worry (2)
- Worth (2)
- Young Adults (1)
- Youth/Teens (1)
- (-) Calling (55)
- Adam Slate (1)
- Amanda Poppei (1)
- Amy Zucker Morgenstern (1)
- Andrea Hawkins-Kamper (2)
- Beth Graham (1)
- Brian Doyle (1)
- Charles A. Howe (1)
- Christian Schmidt (1)
- Connie Simon (1)
- Cynthia Landrum (1)
- D. Scott Cooper (1)
- David Richo (1)
- Elizabeth Nguyen (1)
- Eric Williams (1)
- Erika Hewitt (2)
- Gary Kowalski (1)
- Gordon B McKeeman (2)
- Jane E Mauldin (1)
- Jan Taddeo (1)
- Jean M Rickard (1)
- John Saxon (1)
- Judith L Quarles (1)
- Kelly Weisman Asprooth-Jackson (1)
- Kimberly Beyer-Nelson (1)
- Kimberly Quinn Johnson (1)
- Leslie Ahuvah Fails (1)
- Leslie Takahashi (1)
- Linda J Hoddy (1)
- Lisel Mueller (1)
- Marilynne Robinson (1)
- Maryell Cleary (1)
- Mary Wellemeyer (2)
- Matthew Rosin (1)
- Maureen Killoran (1)
- Megan Foley (1)
- Melanie Davis (1)
- Myke Johnson (1)
- Nancy Shaffer (1)
- Naomi King (1)
- Nathan C. Walker (1)
- Peter Friedrichs (1)
- Philip Randall Giles (1)
- Qiyamah Rahman (1)
- Ruth E Gibson (1)
- Shari Woodbury (1)
- Susan Maginn (3)
- Tania Márquez (1)
- UUA Leadership Council (1)
- Victoria Safford (1)
Displaying 1 - 20 of 55
-
Is a calling a feeling of joy, of completeness in your work?Reading | By Megan Foley | May 22, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Calling, Direct Experience, Leadership, Ordinations, Unitarian Universalism, WorshipWeb, Worship
-
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
-
As Unitarian Universalists, our journey is to transform the big and the small, to transform ourselves, and to transform the world.Responsive Reading | By Elizabeth Nguyen | November 9, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Calling, Freedom, Justice, Living Our Faith, Purpose, Seven Principles, Transformation, Unitarian Universalism, Universalism, Wholeness, WorshipWeb, Worship
-
The most life-giving coping strategy—for me—is to attune to a voice calmer and wiser than mine, and allow that seeking to be its own expression of faith.Reflection | By Erika Hewitt | July 22, 2020 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Calling, Direct Experience, Discernment, Faith, Letting Go, Listening, Presence, Searching, Spiritual Practice
-
Jesus had no political power. He lived his whole life in the shadow of the Roman empire, and that empire killed him. Yet Jesus healed the sick, he listened, he moved among the ordinary people, in the lowly places.Reflection | By Myke Johnson | April 8, 2020 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #COVID19, 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Calling, Caring, Christianity, Democracy, Easter, Evil, Good Friday, Healing, Hope, Power, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Responsibility
-
• It takes a spark. • It takes fuel. • It takes air. • And it takes a container to hold them all. It is only with all of these things that we make fire. • It takes a call. • It takes learning and experience • It takes love. • And it takes a community to hold them all. It is only with...Chalice Lighting | By Christian Schmidt | January 16, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Calling, Direct Experience, Leadership, Ordinations, Relationships
-
In the weaving of our story to the web of life, we must remember that we must not cut the strings, for there are others coming after us.Affirmation | By Tania Márquez | November 6, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Calling, Commitment, Direct Experience, Generations, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Purpose, Service, Solidarity
-
This work isn’t all prayers and beautiful moments, nor is it laments and trauma. It’s not even both/and, because this work is something greater than you, greater than us, greater than the whole of those we serve. This work is a calling. And we’re doing it. Day after day, night after night,...Blessing | By Andrea Hawkins-Kamper | January 16, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Calling, Challenge, Commitment, Compassion, Courage, Grace, Gratitude, Healing, Installations, Ministry, Ordinations, Vulnerability, Worship
-
In real life, we can only place the pieces, one by one, and see what kind of picture we create. Sometimes we turn out to have chosen the wrong piece. Sometimes the picture is wildly unexpected.Reflection | By Amanda Poppei | April 4, 2018 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Bridging Ceremony, Calling, Choice, Coming of Age, Coming-of-Age, Contemplation, Courage, Direct Experience, Discernment, Hope, Humanism, Journey, Playfulness, Searching, Secular
-
This is the hour. The time has come. Mindful of our responsibilities as leaders of this faith and guardians of the living tradition, we call upon that great cloud of witnesses—those who came before, those who are here now and those who have yet to come. We seek their presence, love and support in...Chalice Lighting | By Connie Simon | December 13, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 6th Principle (World Community), Business Meetings, Calling, Generations, Governance, Leadership, Ordinations, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Responsibility, Secular, Teamwork, Tradition, Unitarian Universalism, Wisdom
-
If another strains to breathe, may our voices be the gentle rise and fall. If another chokes on tears, may our voices be an opening to hope. If another has forgotten, may our voices be a memory upwelling. If another is adrift, may our voices be the calling of community.Meditation | By Matthew Rosin | November 28, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Calling, Caring, Community, Humanism, Interdependence
-
Hush: Somebody’s calling your name— Can you hear it? Calling you to a past not quite forgotten, Calling us to a future not fully imagined? Hush, hush: Somebody’s calling our name. What shall we do? Note: this benediction is part of an entire Promise & Practice...Benediction | By Kimberly Quinn Johnson | October 15, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Arts & Music, Calling, Healing, Listening, Living Our Faith, Multiculturalism, Race/Ethnicity, Reconciliation, Responsibility
-
The world aches for us to join together and bring about healing, toil for justice, and produce ever-increasing love. This is our calling. Go forth and act accordingly. Amen.Benediction | By D. Scott Cooper | August 17, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), Calling, Healing, Humanism, Justice, Living Our Faith, Love, Purpose, Unitarian Universalism
-
Here we are in our circle again. A circle of vision and reflection, A forum for deciding and empowering. Here we are at the base of another bridge, another space spanning the shores of today and tomorrow. Beckoning us to cross the chasm, one day at a time....Opening | By Shari Woodbury | August 11, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 5th Principle (Conscience & Democracy), Business Meetings, Calling, Community, Humanism, Installations, Leadership, Secular, Trust, Unitarian Universalism, Vision
-
Listen! Can you hear it? The Spirit is calling. It calls us in the silence and through the noise and busyness of our daily lives. It calls us in the brightness of the day and the darkness of the night, in times of hope and despair. Listen! Can you hear it? The Spirit is calling. It doesn't matter...Opening | By John Saxon | April 6, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Calling, Direct Experience, Listening, Purpose, Spirituality, Transcendence
-
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson, is a novel that takes the form of a letter or journal that a dying, elderly Congregationalist minister in Gilead, Iowa, writes to his 7-year old son in 1956 – written so that one day the boy will know something about his father’s life and character. In this passage...Reading | By Marilynne Robinson | March 10, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Animal Blessing, Animals, Awe, Calling, Christianity, Faith, Leadership, Ministry, Ordinations, Power, Sacred, Unitarian Universalism, Wonder
-
No matter how weak or how frightened we may feel, we each have gifts that can make a difference in the world. In this coming week, may you do at least one thing to support the broken; to welcome the stranger; to celebrate what is worthy; to do the work of justice and love. Be strong. Be connected.Benediction | By Maureen Killoran | February 7, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), Calling, Caring, Challenge, Direct Experience, Hope, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Service, Unitarian Universalism
-
If ever there were a time for a candle in the darkness, this would be it. Using a spark of hope, kindle the flame of love, ignite the light of peace, and feed the flame of justice.Chalice Lighting | By Melanie Davis | December 22, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), Activism, Calling, Despair, Hope, Justice, Justice Sunday, Peace, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Secular, Unitarian Universalism, Worry
-
May we see all as it is, and may it all be as we see it. May we be the ones to make it as it should be, For if not us, who? If not now, when?...Closing | By Andrea Hawkins-Kamper | December 8, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 6th Principle (World Community), Anti-Oppression, Calling, Conscience, Human Rights, Humanism, Inclusion, Justice, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Unity
-
"Our universal calling as humans is to be the most loving people we can be."...Quote | By David Richo | December 3, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Belief, Calling, Direct Experience, Humanism, Living Our Faith, Love, Purpose, Secular, Spirituality
Search Options
- worship component, like chalice lighting or prayer
- tags include spiritual themes (like hope, winter, anti-oppression or trust), UU Principle, and holiday, holy day, or other occasion: (holiday pages)
- keyword searches the title, page text, tags, and author names
- author: list of authors
Using the Site Search Box
You can also use the search box in the upper right corner of any page.
Give Credit to Authors
Our authors and artists have granted permission for use by Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) member congregations for any worship service, including printing materials, projecting onto screens, or including in audio/video podcasts. Thank you for crediting the author or artist.
WorshipWeb's Origin Story
Conceived in 1999, WorshipWeb was implemented in late 2000 and 2001 through funding from the Unitarian Universalist Association's successful 1997 "Handing on the Future" capital fund campaign.
We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association and its members in the development of WorshipWeb.