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People who aren't neurodiverse tend to frame neurodiversity as symptoms of inconvenience to people around them. For me, my ADHD means beauty.Reflection | By Quinn Gormley | March 13, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Acceptance, Beauty, Direct Experience, Identity, Multiculturalism, Psychology, Self-Respect, Wonder, Worship
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When someone lists Unitarians or Universalists, they usually name white men. Never anyone Black like me.Reflection | By Connie Simon | February 28, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #8thPrinciple, #BlackHistoryMonth, #BlackLivesMatter, 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Generations, History, Identity, Race/Ethnicity, Self-Respect, Truth, Unitarian Universalism, Unitarianism, Universalism, Worship
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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
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Just as I can believe in others, I also believe in me.Reflection | By Vanessa Titang | January 10, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Activism, Direct Experience, Discernment, Doubt, Humanism, Identity, Leadership, Ministry, Self-Respect, Worship
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What “toast, boast, and oath” might you offer this January?Reflection | By Sarah Klinger Osborne | January 3, 2024 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Beginnings, Choice, Contemplation, Integrity, New Year, Searching, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Worship
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I believe that we are all "life drummers" just waiting to join in the rhythm.Reflection | By Christin Green | October 25, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Acceptance, Body, Community, Direct Experience, Interdependence, Self-Respect, Worship
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Spirit and Breath, create an openness that violence has constricted.Reflection | By Melissa Jeter | October 4, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, Anger, Body, Earth, Healing, Race/Ethnicity, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Worship
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Self-compassion was one of the best gifts I gave myself.Reflection | By DanaLee Simon | September 6, 2023 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Acceptance, Change, Earth, Healing, Nature, Patience, Personal Stories, Self-Respect, Stewardship, Worship
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I rise on the shoulders of ancestors whose names I can not know.Reflection | By Glen Thomas Rideout | September 14, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #8thPrinciple, #BlackHistoryMonth, #BlackLivesMatter, 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), America, Anti-Oppression, Black History / Whitney Young / James Reeb, Direct Experience, Family, Generations, History, Oppression, Race/Ethnicity, Secular, Self-Respect, Unitarian Universalism, Worship
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The power to choose is the power of life in the midst of brokenness.Reading | By Rebecca Ann Parker | May 7, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 1st Principle (Worth & Dignity), 2nd Principle (Justice, Equity, & Compassion), 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Activism, Body, Brokenness, Choice, Direct Experience, Humanism, Integrity, Self-Respect, Unitarian Universalism, WorshipWeb, Reproductive Justice, Worship
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My dreams matter, as they are connected to the dreams of my ancestors.Affirmation | By Phoenix Bell-Shelton Biggs | March 30, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Direct Experience, Imagination, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Vision, WorshipWeb, Worship
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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
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We are full, sovereign human beings.Reading | By Jaclyn Friedman | January 19, 2022 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Body, Choice, Direct Experience, Health, Self-Respect, Sexuality, WorshipWeb, Worship
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To understand that my humanity and my abundant flesh both demand dignity is to embrace fat liberation.Reflection | By Andrew Tripp | January 19, 2022 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Acceptance, Body, Fat Liberation, Love, Self-Respect, Worship
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Love calls me to rest when I feel disconnectedAffirmation | By Melissa Jeter | November 24, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Christianity, Interdependence, Love, Self-Care, Self-Respect, WorshipWeb, Worship
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Dear Creative Life Force, the infinite healing power of creativity is the best gift you've given to us.Reflection | By Erica Shadowsong | September 15, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Creativity, Direct Experience, Family, Identity, Personal Stories, Self-Respect, Worship
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My God lives in the margins and witnesses to the broken-hearted.Reflection | By Jami Yandle | September 8, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Worship
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My inner compass reminds me of the power we’ve been given to create a new future.Reflection | By Mariela Pérez-Simons | July 14, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: Earth, Earth-Centered, Imagination, Limitations, Nature, Self-Care, Self-Respect, Worship
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May I have the wisdom to be curious when I find myself grumbling about “them.”Reflection | By Erika Hewitt | April 7, 2021 | From Braver/WiserTagged as: #COVID19, 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Conflict, Conscience, Healing, Humanism, Integrity, Relationships, Secular, Self-Respect, Worship
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"There are two moments that matter. One is when you know that your one and only life is absolutely valuable and alive. The other is when you know your life, as presently lived, is entirely pointless and empty. You need both of them to keep you going in the right direction. Lent is about both. The...Quote | By Richard Rohr | February 25, 2021 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Balance, Christianity, Connections, Humility, Lent, Limitations, Self-Respect, Spirituality, WorshipWeb, Worship
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