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We need to summon the courage to cross the bridge...Reading | By Danya Ruttenberg | November 15, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Blame, Courage, Forgiveness, Judaism, Personal Stories, Relationships, Responsibility, Trust, WorshipWeb, Worship
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I have struggled forgiving myself for not knowing how to create appropriate boundaries.Reflection | By Lynette Yetter | September 20, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Acceptance, Buddhism, Compassion, Forgiveness, Journey, Relationships, Spiritual Practice, Worship
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Every relationship is an ongoing story that unfolds between people.Reflection | By Erika Hewitt | June 28, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Brokenness, Connections, Forgiveness, Healing, Relationships, Worship
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Loving sometimes takes all that we have.Responsive Reading | By Patty Willis | March 8, 2023 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Courage, Forgiveness, Friendship, Love, Relationships, WorshipWeb, Worship
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12-Step recovery has provided me with perspective, forgiveness, and freedom from shame.Reflection | By Lane-Mairead Campbell | March 1, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Addiction/Recovery, Forgiveness, Grace, Relationships, Transformation, Worship
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I offer my "Ouch" with hope and trust.Meditation | By Atena O. Danner | August 18, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Connections, Forgiveness, Humility, Living Our Faith, Relationships, Unitarian Universalism, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Start by telling the story of your mistake. Keep practicing! This is a tool you can use in many different situations.Time for All Ages | By Maria Bavier | April 19, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Forgiveness, Friendship, Healing, Humanism, Relationships, Secular, WorshipWeb, Worship
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May this chalice light guide us toward the courageous and openhearted apology, toward repair of relationships in our lives.Chalice Lighting | By Joanna Lubkin | October 1, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Forgiveness, Judaism, Relationships, Sacred, Yom Kippur, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Love cannot be bought or sold; it does not make a profit. Love does not hide from truth. Love dives deep. Love takes on flesh. Love is queer. Love is platonic. Love is erotic. Love is asexual. Love confronts evil. Love delights in pleasure. Love touches and weeps and flirts and feeds and creates.Affirmation | By enfleshed | January 21, 2020 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Anti-Oppression, Direct Experience, Forgiveness, Humanism, Intimacy, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer, Love, Relationships, Secular, Valentine's Day
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The work of forgiveness is so challenging—the actual work of it. The naming, grieving, empathizing, releasing. It’s like a death. A death of what we wanted, what we expected, what we’d hoped for, what we deserved and didn’t receive….We don’t get to control other people or outcomes. I am...Reading | By Jen Hatmaker | September 25, 2019 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Direct Experience, Forgiveness, Growth, Letting Go, Relationships
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My soul nudged me from a hiding place to confess and to seek forgiveness, and only through the grace of the Great Mystery of Life unfolding around us did I receive the blessing of journeying with a beloved, grieving friend.Reflection | By Rebekah Savage | January 9, 2019 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Connections, Direct Experience, Failure, Forgiveness, Friendship, Guilt, Love, Reconciliation, Relationships, Self-Respect, Vulnerability
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It is my only memory of a lesson from Kindergarten Sunday School class. Maybe it’s the only one that counts.Reflection | By Misha Sanders | August 1, 2018 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Acceptance, Children, Direct Experience, Forgiveness, God, Grace, Imagination, Love, Prophetic Words & Deeds, Relationships, Transcendence, Unitarian Universalism
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As a child, growing up Catholic, my sense was that we should give away forgiveness like candy at Halloween: freely and readily, to anyone who comes asking. As an adult Unitarian Universalist, however, I have realized that forgiveness is a lot more complicated and challenging than that image would...Reading | By Gretchen Haley | October 27, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Direct Experience, Forgiveness, Humanism, Love, Relationships, Secular, Vulnerability
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Open your hearts, my friends, And let yourself feel the reality of absence. Open your hearts, and acknowledge That we gather in the presence of death. Open your hearts. Make room For the healing balm of connection, the release of forgiveness. No matter what pain dwells within your spirit, Or how...Opening | By Maureen Killoran | April 13, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), Forgiveness, Grief, Healing, Love, Memorial Services, Mourning, Relationships, Sorrow, Unitarian Universalism
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For those we have hurt in any way, whether through words or deed or thoughts. Here is a place to forgive and to be forgiven. For the excuses we have made, just to be right. Here is a place to forgive and to be forgiven. For the blame we have placed on someone else, again and again....Litany | By Cathy Cartwright-Chow | September 29, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Acceptance, Community, Forgiveness, Grace, Healing, Judaism, Relationships, Responsibility, Rosh Hashanah, Self-Respect, Unitarian Universalism, Yom Kippur
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Holy God, hear our prayer. There is pain and there is sorrow, there are broken relationships and broken hearts. Sometimes we are the cause of those things. We have caused pain. We have broken the relationship....Prayer of Confession | By Beth Merrill Neel | September 1, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Brokenness, Christianity, Forgiveness, Healing, Pain, Relationships, Wholeness
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"We forgive ourselves and each other and begin again in love," from A Litany of Atonement, by Rev....Image | By Ellen Rockett, Robert L. Eller-Isaacs | June 20, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Forgiveness, Love, Relationships, Unitarian Universalism
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Imagine this. On the days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, every fall, every year, the people make their peace with anyone they have wronged or slighted or injured or in any way neglected in the past twelve months....Meditation | By Victoria Safford | June 13, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), Brokenness, Forgiveness, Healing, Judaism, Relationships, Wholeness, Yom Kippur
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For all who left a relationship in order to save your heart, may your own heartbeat be your blessing. Its rhythm, its particular kinships, its unique rhythm. May you know your own heart as God's blessing....Blessing | By Meg Riley | May 10, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Acceptance, Body, Brokenness, Conflict, Direct Experience, Division, Divorce / Separation, Forgiveness, Life Transition, Love, Marriage, Relationships, Self-Respect
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Let us tell the stories of mothers… stories that could be true. Let us tell of warm mothers, soft and round, likely to be found with flour on their nose, and always ready to pour you a glass of milk to go with the cookies on your plate. These mothers are increasingly rare. Let us tell of mothers...Meditation | By Maureen Killoran | May 5, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 3rd Principle (Acceptance & Spiritual Growth), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Children, Family, Forgiveness, Love, Mother's Day, Mothers, Parents, Relationships, Secular
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