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Appreciation and deep witness are beautiful gateways for returning to our most authentic selves.Reflection | By Jami Yandle | March 6, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Compassion, Friendship, Humanism, Interdependence, Listening, Love, Vulnerability, Worship -
Remind me that success is not the only measure of a life.Reflection | By Amanda Poppei | January 31, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Acceptance, Compassion, Failure, Humanism, Secular, Self-Respect, Vulnerability, Worship -
None of us are mission-making machines.Reflection | By Susan Maginn | May 18, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Compassion, Direct Experience, Humanism, Leadership, Military, Ministry, Secular, Vulnerability, Worship -
God, teach us to consider also how others experience the world. To understand how my reality and their reality are different and yet they share qualities of the same core desire. Teach us to listen for shared feelings, for places of connection. Teach us to be curious and open to hearing differences.Prayer | By Tanya Cothran | September 11, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Christianity, Compassion, Direct Experience, Empathy, God, Healing, Imagination, Immanence, Love, Unity, Vulnerability -
Oh, divine Love, With the kindling of this flame, may we realize and love our true selves: Our true, round belly selves. Our true, bags under our eyes, selves. Our true, naturally hairy, selves. Our true, wrinkles on our skin, selves. May our self-love help keep our chalice ablaze.Chalice Lighting | By Cooper Garrett | May 27, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Acceptance, Body, Compassion, Courage, Dignity, Love, Self-Respect, Shame, Truth, Vulnerability -
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 -
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 -
[In the] spirit of love, harmony, and remembrance, we stand too often divided, too often set apart from one another in heedless ways. We seek to be compassionate but our vision may be clouded or distracted. We too often go forward, day by day, and look without seeing....Litany | By Dennis McCarty | August 3, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), Anti-Oppression, Compassion, Direct Experience, Integrity, Relationships, Solidarity, Suffering, Vulnerability -
Spirit of Life, I give thanks for the opportunities to love that present themselves in the turmoil of life. Where the light catches the tears in another’s eyes, where hands are held and there are moments without words, let us be present then, and alive to the possibility of changing. Let us seek...Meditation | By Elizabeth Tarbox | May 28, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Caring, Change, Compassion, Gratitude, Love, Presence, Relationships, Vulnerability, Wonder -
It is an hour before sunrise. The waves keep coming, but each minute they make less progress than the minute before....Meditation | By Elizabeth Tarbox | May 28, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Brokenness, Caring, Compassion, Direct Experience, Earth-Centered, Forgiveness, Guilt, Healing, Nature, Pain, Sadness, Vulnerability
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Be gentle with another— It is a cry from the lives of people battered By thoughtless words and brutal deeds; It comes from the lips of those who speak them, And the lives of those who do them. Who of us can look inside another and know what is there Of hope and hurt, or promise and pain? Who...Meditation | By Richard S. Gilbert | April 26, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Caring, Compassion, Love, Pain, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Vulnerability -
Spirit of my longing and lonely heart, help me travel through the barren borderlands that separate me from others. Teach me to willingly explore relationships with those who frighten or threaten me, grant me the courage to risk confidently my own comforts, that I might make others more comfortable.Prayer | By Stephen M. Shick | March 12, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Choice, Compassion, Connections, Courage, Empathy, Unitarian Universalism, Vulnerability
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The element of fire represents passion, veracity, authenticity, and vitality. If the chalice is the supporting structure of Unitarian Universalism, then we are the flame....Chalice Lighting | By Sarah Lammert | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Challenge, Commitment, Community, Compassion, Freedom, Living Our Faith, Love, Power, Truth, Unitarian Universalism, Vulnerability -
A voice screeched gate assignments through a nerve-jangling public address system. Even if the announcements had been in English, I doubt that I’d have been able to make sense of them. But whatever was being broadcast to the cavernous waiting area of the Moscow airport prompted mobs of people to...Reading | By Jeffrey A. Lockwood | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Acceptance, Compassion, Culture, Direct Experience, Empathy, Gratitude, Humanism, Limitations, Vulnerability -
God of life and beauty: We pray for the quietness of snowflakes, knowing that love is quiet. We pray for the kindness of small acts, knowing gentleness is fragile....Prayer | By Lucinda S Duncan | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Advent, Compassion, God, Kindness, Living Our Faith, Service, Unitarian Universalism, Vulnerability, Winter, Winter Solstice / Yule -
May we open ourselves ever more fully to that Eternal Mystery which lures us onward toward life and creativity. May we find the courage to live our faith, to speak our truth, and to strive together for a world where freedom abounds and justice truly does roll down like water. May we know the...Meditation | By Carol Meyer | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Compassion, Connections, Mystery, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Vulnerability
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At this quiet time and in this place of worship we would seek to know more deeply what it means to love one another. We know so well our own needs. We know that we, ourselves need understanding, affection and recognition. Why is it then that so often we hesitate to extend these precious gifts to...Meditation | By Edward T Atkinson | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Commitment, Compassion, Kindness, Power, Unitarian Universalism, Vulnerability
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Spirit of kindness and compassion, we come from different places to this sacred ground of communal caring. We are enriched by the company of each other, and are drawn closer to the heart of love in this time of service. Touch this gathering with tenderness so that we may be refreshed anew by the...Blessing | By Nancee Campbell | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Caring, Community, Compassion, Courage, Fear, Grace, Kindness, Love, Sacred, Unitarian Universalism, Vulnerability