Unitarian Universalists Practicing Lent 2015

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A space for Unitarian Universalists to explore a shared spiritual practice during Lent in images and reflection. Return to this page throughout Lent for our shared sacred images and words. You can also follow on Twitter #UULent Thanks to Mr. Barb Greve for this Lenten practice idea, and to Karen Bellavance-Grace for the Tumblrization. The Photo A Day Graphic may be printed and shared under a Creative Commons License for non-profit use only.

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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

James Baldwin

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Rejoice

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Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.

Naomi Benaron

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Transcend

Service Saturday!

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We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender.

John O’Donohue

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Surrender

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Silence is a source of great strength

Lao Tzu

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Silence.

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“We are touched by magic wands. For just a fraction of our day life is perfect, and we are absolutely happy and in harmony with the earth. The feeling passes much too quickly. But the memory – and the anticipation of other miracles – sustains us in the battle indefinitely.” -- John Nichols

Bright Sun + Blue Sky + Mid-Afternoon Walk on a Warm Spring Day = Magic Wand

(Day 43: ‪#‎Sustenance‬)

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Sustenance

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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Faith

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