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May we know ourselves as vessels of infinite possibilityOpening | By Leah Ongiri | March 10, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Growth, Living Our Faith, Purpose, Spirituality, 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 -
We already have everything we need within us to meet the life that is before us.Reflection | By DanaLee Simon | November 10, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Animals, Character, Earth-Centered, Growth, Limitations, Nature, Purpose, Worship -
This has been published with "they" pronouns; please use the most fitting pronoun in your own setting. Minister: I call (intern name) to the pulpit. Congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Church of (name), we have begun a new thing by bringing (intern) into our midst, to learn the practice of...Ritual | By Michelle Buhite | October 12, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Beginnings, Commitment, Community, Growth, Leadership, Ministerial Transition, Purpose, Relationships, Service, Transformation, Unitarian Universalism -
Become aware of the hands that you are holding: their warmth, texture, and weight. As an infant, these same hands reached out for the nourishment of milk. As a child, these hands shakily wrote a name on paper for the first time....Closing | By Amy Bowden Freedman, Keith Kron | June 1, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Body, Connections, Direct Experience, Growth, Justice, Purpose, Service, Work -
Note: This ritual combines fresh water with water from the previous year that has been boiled and filtered. The combined water is poured over the hands into the common bowl. Minister: The ancient Greek philosopher Heracltus of Ephesus is famous for one belief. He taught his students that...Blessing | By Charlie Dieterich | April 22, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Beginnings, Body, Caring, Children, Earth-Centered, Education, Generations, Gratitude, Growth, Homecoming / Ingathering, Humanism, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Purpose, Teacher Recognition, Tradition, Unitarian Universalism, Water Communion, WorshipWeb -
Ultimate Grace, the heart of every matter, in every perfection and imperfection, in all senses and: tenses, in moments of every right and wrong, presenting choices to inquiring hearts. You are in the purpose and the journey of mishaps. You are in moments of understanding and misunderstanding. We...Invocation | By Ma Theresa "Tet" Gustilo Gallardo | February 20, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Freedom, Growth, Inclusion, Purpose, Revelation, Searching, Unitarian Universalism -
“Personal Spiritual Trainers” excerpted from Nathan C. Walker (2014) Exorcising Preaching: Crafting Intellectually Honest Worship. St. Louis: Chalice Press. When you come to me, come not with the expectation to have some passive clergyperson coddle you into complacency. No. Come to me as your...Reading | By Nathan C. Walker | January 25, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Direct Experience, Growth, Humility, Meaning, Progress, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Purpose, Unitarian Universalism
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"Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow."...Quote | By Margaret Fuller | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Growth, Purpose, Searching
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We come together every week Bound not by a creed, Or a mutual desire to please one God Or many Gods Yet we are drawn together By a belief, that how we are in the world, Who we are together Matters. We light this chalice, together in the knowledge That love, not fear, can change this world...Chalice Lighting | By Jennifer Gracen | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Character, Community, Covenant, Growth, Hope, Identity, Integrity, Interdependence, Purpose, Vision -
When we remember those whom we have loved and lost, help us to remember also, O God, how great a privilege is human loving, and that not to have loved at all would have been loss far greater still. Amen. “What’s a soul?” Not a question Unitarian Universalists ask very often. We are more likely...Sermon | By John A. Buehrens | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Grief, Growth, Healing, Purpose, Solidarity
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If you are who you were, and if the person next to you is who he or she was, if none of us has changed since the day we came in here— we have failed. The purpose of this community— of any church, temple, zendo, mosque— is to help its people grow. We do this through encounters with the...Closing | By Erik Walker Wikstrom | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Change, Character, Growth, Integrity, Living Our Faith, Purpose, Transformation
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O God of life, help us make this church a refuge from the world, a place where the rules are different....Meditation | By Richard Trudeau | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Acceptance, Community, Compassion, Direct Experience, Growth, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Purpose, Service, Teamwork, Trust