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.
- 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity) (5)
- 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion) (1)
- 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth) (5)
- 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning) (12)
- 6th Principle (World Community) (1)
- 7th Principle (Interconnected Web) (3)
- 1320 (1)
- 1449 (1)
- Abundance (2)
- Acceptance (3)
- Aging (1)
- Agnosticism (1)
- Anti-Oppression (2)
- Arts & Music (1)
- Awe (1)
- Beauty (2)
- Beginnings (1)
- Body (1)
- Bridging Ceremony (2)
- Brokenness (2)
- Caring (1)
- Challenge (3)
- Change (4)
- Character (3)
- Child Dedication (2)
- Children (4)
- Children's / Religious Education Sunday (1)
- Choice (1)
- Climate Justice (1)
- Coming-of-Age (1)
- Coming of Age (1)
- Commitment (1)
- Community (1)
- Compassion (1)
- Conscience (1)
- Creativity (1)
- Depression (1)
- Direct Experience (10)
- Disability (1)
- Earth (3)
- Earth-Centered (3)
- Earth Day (2)
- Easter (1)
- Education (1)
- Ending (1)
- Environment (1)
- Failure (1)
- Family (3)
- Father's Day (1)
- Fathers (1)
- Fear (1)
- Flower Communion (1)
- Food (1)
- Food Justice (1)
- Forgiveness (1)
- Friendship (1)
- Generations (4)
- Grief (1)
- Growth (18)
- Healing (2)
- Health (1)
- Honesty (1)
- Humanism (14)
- Humility (2)
- Imbolc / Brighid's Day / Candlemas (1)
- Inclusion (1)
- Indigenous American (1)
- Integrity (2)
- Interdependence (1)
- Leadership (2)
- Letting Go (2)
- Listening (1)
- Love (2)
- Meaning (2)
- Meditation Practices (1)
- Military (1)
- Mother's Day (3)
- Mothers (2)
- Mourning (1)
- Multiculturalism (1)
- Nature (3)
- New Child (1)
- Pain (1)
- Parents (3)
- Patience (1)
- Peace (1)
- Privilege (1)
- Prophetic Words & Deeds (3)
- Psychology (1)
- Relationships (1)
- Responsibility (1)
- Revelation (1)
- Sacred (1)
- Sadness (1)
- Searching (2)
- (-) Secular (18)
- Self-Care (1)
- Self-Respect (1)
- Solidarity (1)
- Spiritual Practice (1)
- Spring (1)
- Teacher Dedication (1)
- Teacher Recognition (1)
- Transcendence (1)
- Transformation (4)
- Trust (2)
- Truth (1)
- Twelfth Night / Epiphany (1)
- Unitarian Universalism (3)
- Vernal Equinox (1)
- Vulnerability (1)
- Winter Solstice / Yule (1)
- Wisdom (3)
- Worship (4)
- Worth (1)
- Bridging Ceremony (2)
- Child Dedication (2)
- Children's / Religious Education Sunday (1)
- Coming of Age (1)
- Earth Day (2)
- Easter (1)
- Father's Day (1)
- Flower Communion (1)
- Imbolc / Brighid's Day / Candlemas (1)
- Meditation Practices (1)
- Mother's Day (3)
- Mourning (1)
- New Child (1)
- Teacher Dedication (1)
- Teacher Recognition (1)
- Twelfth Night / Epiphany (1)
- Vernal Equinox (1)
- Winter Solstice / Yule (1)
- Abundance (2)
- Acceptance (3)
- Aging (1)
- Anti-Oppression (2)
- Arts & Music (1)
- Awe (1)
- Beauty (2)
- Beginnings (1)
- Body (1)
- Brokenness (2)
- Caring (1)
- Challenge (3)
- Change (4)
- Character (3)
- Children (4)
- Choice (1)
- Coming-of-Age (1)
- Commitment (1)
- Community (1)
- Compassion (1)
- Conscience (1)
- Creativity (1)
- Depression (1)
- Disability (1)
- Earth (3)
- Education (1)
- Ending (1)
- Environment (1)
- Failure (1)
- Family (3)
- Fathers (1)
- Fear (1)
- Food (1)
- Forgiveness (1)
- Friendship (1)
- Generations (4)
- Grief (1)
- Healing (2)
- Health (1)
- Honesty (1)
- Humility (2)
- Inclusion (1)
- Integrity (2)
- Interdependence (1)
- Leadership (2)
- Letting Go (2)
- Listening (1)
- Love (2)
- Meaning (2)
- Military (1)
- Mothers (2)
- Multiculturalism (1)
- Nature (3)
- Pain (1)
- Parents (3)
- Patience (1)
- Peace (1)
- Privilege (1)
- Psychology (1)
- Relationships (1)
- Responsibility (1)
- Revelation (1)
- Sacred (1)
- Sadness (1)
- Searching (2)
- Self-Care (1)
- Self-Respect (1)
- Solidarity (1)
- Spiritual Practice (1)
- Spring (1)
- Transcendence (1)
- Transformation (4)
- Trust (2)
- Truth (1)
- Vulnerability (1)
- Wisdom (3)
- Worth (1)
- (-) Growth (18)
- Alex Haider-Winnett (1)
- Alix Klingenberg (1)
- Amy Zucker Morgenstern (1)
- Christine Slocum (1)
- Cynthia Frado (1)
- Erica Shadowsong (1)
- Hope Jahren (1)
- Jason Cook (1)
- Jen Crow (1)
- Jennifer McGlothin (1)
- Karen G. Johnston (1)
- Kristin Kany (1)
- Melissa Jeter (1)
- Monica Dobbins (1)
- Myke Johnson (1)
- Seanan R. Holland (1)
- Sean Parker Dennison (1)
- William Laurence Sullivan (1)
Displaying 1 - 18 of 18
-
Growing connects me to ancestors who had their hands in the dirt because it was keeping them alive.Reflection | By Melissa Jeter | May 25, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Abundance, Earth, Earth-Centered, Family, Food, Food Justice, Generations, Growth, Humanism, Nature, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Secular, Spiritual Practice, Worship
-
Taking what we need and leaving the rest behind isn’t only a one time thing. We can do it anytime.Reading | By Jen Crow | March 24, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Character, Growth, Humanism, Integrity, Psychology, Secular, Self-Care, Self-Respect, WorshipWeb, Worship
-
White supremacy culture tells me that I’m only "good" if I’m perfect, treating all falls as hard stops.Reflection | By Christine Slocum | March 16, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Anti-Oppression, Challenge, Ending, Failure, Growth, Humanism, Letting Go, Secular, Worship
-
One day, I’ll have to care for my mother as she once cared for me. I’m not ready to handle the truth that our relationship must change.Reflection | By Erica Shadowsong | September 9, 2020 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Caring, Child Dedication, Children, Coming of Age, Coming-of-Age, Direct Experience, Fear, Generations, Growth, Humanism, Love, Mother's Day, Mothers, Parents, Secular, Worship
-
Surround yourself with skillful teachers. Let them teach you, but don't let them do it for you. That learning is yours to do.Reflection | By Karen G. Johnston | January 22, 2020 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Arts & Music, Beauty, Brokenness, Creativity, Direct Experience, Growth, Humanism, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Secular
-
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
-
In every person we meet, especially those who cause us discomfort, we find an opportunity for us to grow, to learn, to go further along the path of transformation that is our purpose in life. Every single one is our teacher. May the next week bring you many such moments of meeting that help you...Benediction | By Amy Zucker Morgenstern | January 2, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Challenge, Change, Growth, Humanism, Humility, Listening, Searching, Secular, Transformation
-
Sometimes grief sends notice ahead of time; sometimes, it shows up as an unwelcome, uninvited guest.Reflection | By Monica Dobbins | October 30, 2019 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Bridging Ceremony, Change, Children, Direct Experience, Grief, Growth, Humanism, Letting Go, Mother's Day, Parents, Secular, Transformation
-
This group blessing is designed to be shared by many voices or read by just one. Alex suggests creating an altar with a chalice and testing supplies (which are then distributed to students as they need them). Speaker 1: We have come to the end of the quarter/semester/year. An end to these classes.Blessing | By Alex Haider-Winnett | June 19, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Bridging Ceremony, Challenge, Choice, Commitment, Direct Experience, Education, Forgiveness, Friendship, Growth, Responsibility, Secular, Wisdom, Worth
-
When we can gently hold things steady, change comes from within; that’s where the real growth happens.Reflection | By Alix Klingenberg | May 15, 2019 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Change, Community, Direct Experience, Growth, Humanism, Integrity, Leadership, Secular, Trust
-
We seekers are on a quest: A quest to discover truth and meaning. Sometimes we think we’ve found it— Wrapped up, glimmering with newness Straight off the intellectual assembly line. All the answers right here for us And others, if they’d only listen. But truth has a way of coming in disguise,...Opening | By Jason Cook | June 18, 2018 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Character, Children's / Religious Education Sunday, Direct Experience, Growth, Humanism, Leadership, Meaning, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Revelation, Searching, Secular, Teacher Dedication, Teacher Recognition, Transformation, Truth, Wisdom
-
In the moment that I switched to “teacher mode,” I recalled moments in which I had inadvertently said ungracious things. I was fortunate enough to have professors, ministers, and friends illuminate my clumsiness for me. They did so in a way that was gracious enough that it increased my appreciation and respect for them, and clear enough that I will never forget the teaching.Reflection | By Seanan R. Holland | August 2, 2017 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Direct Experience, Growth, Humanism, Humility, Inclusion, Military, Privilege, Secular
-
Each of us has gifts and wounds from those who fathered us. This is inevitable; even the best fathers in the world disappoint their children sometimes. Otherwise we wouldn’t be able to grow up. But I know that some wounds are deeper than others. Some people’s hearts have been broken by their...Reading | By Myke Johnson | April 13, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Children, Family, Father's Day, Fathers, Generations, Growth, Healing, Humanism, Pain, Parents, Secular
-
We are sometimes selfish, sometimes complicit with systems that do harm, sometimes the cause of pain and injustice. Until we can hold compassion for ourselves and others—until we can be forgiving when we fall short—our love is incomplete.Reflection | By Sean Parker Dennison | March 29, 2017 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), 6th Principle (World Community), 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Anti-Oppression, Brokenness, Compassion, Conscience, Direct Experience, Disability, Growth, Honesty, Humanism, Multiculturalism, Secular, Solidarity, Unitarian Universalism, Vulnerability
-
Kristin Kany wrote this multi-voice poem in 2016 to be read by a group of "diverse moms." I am mother Mother 1: I am Mother Mother 2: I am Mother Mother(s) 3: I am Mother Mother 4: I am Mother Mother(s) 5: I am Mother Mother 6: I am Mother I am Mama, I am Mommy, I am Chinese, Jewish, African,...Affirmation | By Kristin Kany | March 7, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Body, Children, Direct Experience, Family, Generations, Growth, Humanism, Love, Mother's Day, Mothers, Relationships, Sacred, Secular
-
To the Weaver of Molecules, the Spinner of Stars the Impulse that gives birth to the Universe, to the Earth, to Me In the deepest, darkest night of my wintered soul I wrap myself in the blanket of my sadness and grief, pain and suffering, doubts and concerns, fears and questions, and look out fro...Meditation | By Cynthia Frado | December 8, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Agnosticism, Depression, Direct Experience, Growth, Healing, Imbolc / Brighid's Day / Candlemas, Indigenous American, Meditation Practices, Mourning, Sadness, Secular, Transcendence, Transformation, Trust, Twelfth Night / Epiphany, Unitarian Universalism, Winter Solstice / Yule, WorshipWeb
-
As the first hint of green begins to peek through the barren ground As that little sprig grows into a healthy stem As that stem grows into a stalk and forms a bud As that bud slowly opens with each new day To form a yellow daffodil Let us be, like that first hint of green, renewed by the warm of ...Chalice Lighting | By Jennifer McGlothin | October 20, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 7th Principle (Interconnected Web), Abundance, Awe, Beauty, Beginnings, Earth, Earth Day, Earth-Centered, Easter, Flower Communion, Growth, Health, Interdependence, Nature, Secular, Spring, Unitarian Universalism, Vernal Equinox
-
To outgrow the past but not extinguish it; To be progressive but not raw, Free but not mad, critical but not sterile, expectant but not deluded; To be scientific but not to live on formulas that cut us off from life; To hear amidst clamor the pure, deep tones of the spirit; To seek the wisdom tha...Poetry | By William Laurence Sullivan | March 9, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Aging, Change, Character, Growth, Meaning, Peace, Secular, Wisdom
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.