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Today, we are charged to remember. To know that as we live together in community, we are also in community with the silently singing lives in the vast congregation of the earth as well... Let us remember, and then act.Reading | By Irene Glasse, Rebekah Savage | April 24, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Connections, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Environment, Nature, Sacred, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Crows found ways to adapt to our concrete forests but we have not yet found ways to make sure we are in balance with the rest of creation.Reflection | By Christine Slocum | April 17, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Interdependence, Nature, Worship
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All organisms make ecological living places, altering earth, air, and water... In the process, each organism changes everyone’s world.Reading | By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing | April 10, 2024 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Connections, Environment, Interdependence, Nature, Science, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Remind me that life is magical and mysterious.Reflection | By JD Stillwater | April 19, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Awe, Beauty, Direct Experience, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Nature, Stewardship, Wonder, Worship
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May your kindness abound like hydrogen, which fuels every star.Blessing | By Stacey Elza | November 21, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Earth, Imagination, Nature, Science, Secular, WorshipWeb, Worship
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In a world of scarcity, interconnection and mutual aid become critical for survival.Reading | By Robin Wall Kimmerer | May 19, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Abundance, Caring, Earth, Earth-Centered, Interdependence, Nature
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Respect one another, support one another, bring your gift to the world and receive the gifts of others, and there will be enough for all.Reading | By Robin Wall Kimmerer | May 17, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Abundance, Earth, Earth-Centered, Indigenous American, Interdependence, Nature, WorshipWeb, Worship
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May we reconnect to our life-giving, breath-freeing connectionPrayer | By Leslie Takahashi | May 1, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Beauty, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Nature, Responsibility, Climate Justice, WorshipWeb, Worship
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We are living today with time to do good for ourselves and for each other.Poetry | By Charles Thomas | January 28, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 6th Principle (World Community), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Earth, Earth-Centered, Humanism, Imagination, Interdependence, Nature, Science, Secular, Stewardship, Wonder, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Maybe hope is fleeting. It leaves and returns again; there’s beauty in its impermanence.Reflection | By Jessica Clay | March 10, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Contemplation, Earth, Earth-Centered, Nature, Presence, Secular, Winter, Worship
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Arm's length: What was once a defensive or suspicious expression has now become a gesture of care, an indication of love and protection.Reflection | By Karen G. Johnston | October 14, 2020 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Caring, Direct Experience, Environment, Humanism, Interdependence, Nature, Climate Justice, Worship
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Like the sun moving toward the shortest day, each moment arises—and is gone before we know it.Meditation | By Lori Gorgas Hlaban | October 13, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Autumnal Equinox, Balance, Earth, Earth-Centered, Nature, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Tip if you are video recording this story: you can have a clip of an adult stretching out their arm in one direction, then another clip of a different adult stretching out their arm in the other direction, so that when you edit it, it looks like they are stretching towards each other. It would be...Time for All Ages | By Karen G. Johnston | October 13, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: #COVID19, 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Caring, Earth, Earth-Centered, Environment, Humanism, Nature, Responsibility, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Part of being in community is noticing what's needed. Part of being in community is doing what is necessary but unclaimed.Reflection | By Christine Slocum | September 16, 2020 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Caring, Community, Conscience, Generosity, Humanism, Interdependence, Nature, Responsibility, Secular, Unitarian Universalism, Worship
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The tree stood in the middle of the village. Its trunk was so large that it took six people holding hands to reach around it. The roots were strong and wide, and its branches spread out over the village square, offering shelter from the rain, or shade from the summer sun....Story | By Lynn Gardner | March 4, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Abundance, Canvass/Pledge, Caring, Commitment, Earth-Centered, Generosity, Humanism, Interdependence, Nature, Stewardship
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We light this chalice in honor of the animal realm, Furred and hoofed, two-legged, four-legged, many-legged, Fanged and clawed, gentle and fierce, wild and tame. May we remember that all animals are our relatives, Worthy of our care and respect.Chalice Lighting | By Florence Caplow | January 16, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animal Blessing, Animals, Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, Interdependence, Nature, Relationships, Secular
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A seed knows how to wait. Most seeds wait for several years before starting to grow; a cherry seed can wait for a hundred years with no problem. What exactly each seed is waiting for is known only to that seed. Some unique trigger-combination of temperature-moisture-light and many other things is...Reading | By Hope Jahren | January 9, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Child Dedication, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Environment, Growth, Humanism, Nature, New Child, Patience, Secular, Climate Justice
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In my chapel, redwing blackbird unravels her liquid song in the cattails.Poetry | By Jennifer Pratt-Walter | January 2, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Animals, Connections, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Environment, Imagination, Interdependence, Nature, Spirituality, Wonder
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As we move deeper into the season, There are some things we know. Fall brings a growing darkness That we cannot escape. The nights become cooler And take on winter’s chill. The leaves on the trees and blades of grass Try on new suits of yellow, orange, red and brown....Responsive Reading | By Viola Abbitt | January 2, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Autumnal Equinox, Awe, Beauty, Earth, Earth-Centered, Humility, Letting Go, Nature, Transformation
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There is relief and remorse equally in my heart as the growing season comes to a close.Reflection | By Teresa Honey Youngblood | October 23, 2019 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Abundance, Animals, Caring, Creativity, Direct Experience, Earth, Earth-Centered, Nature, Secular, Stewardship
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