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Want what you have. Do what you can. Be who you are.

Want what you have. Do what you can. Be who you are.

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Be Who You Are, Want, Who You Are
Forrest Church (2008). “Love & Death: My Journey through the Valley of the Shadow”, p.46, Beacon Press

Most of us would agree that the important thing about Jesus is not his supposed miraculous birth or the claim that he was resurrected from death, but rather how he lived. The power of his love, the penetrating simplicity of his teachings, and the force of his example of service on behalf of the disenfranchised and downtrodden are what is crucial.

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Jesus, Teaching, Simplicity
John Beuhrens, Forrest Church (1998). “A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism”, p.7, Beacon Press

The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.

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Love, Inspirational, Life
"Love and Death". Book by Forrest Church, www.washingtonpost.com. September 2008.

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

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Death, Religious, Inspirational Life

We Unitarian Universalists have inherited a magnificent theological legacy. In a sweeping answer to creeds that divide the human family, Unitarianism proclaims that we spring from a common source; Universalism, that we share a common destiny.

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Spring, Destiny, Answers

Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not require this. Rather we are bound by the shared recognition that when one person suffers, all suffer; when we violate one life, all lives are violated; when we pollute the earth, all living things are stained; when one nation threatens the security of another, it, too, becomes less secure; when we place the planet in mortal danger, we hazard the future of our own children as well as the children of our enemies.

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Children, Enemy, Suffering

Remember, Angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witness to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment of every day is riddled by their traces.

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Inspiring, Angel, Messengers

The world does not owe us a living, we owe the world a living, our own.

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Thinking, Doe, World
John Beuhrens, Forrest Church (1998). “A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism”, p.15, Beacon Press

We don't only invent God; we also discover God. Looking at the creation, we strive to deduce the nature of the creator. We take familiar images of power and expand them until they become big enough to encompass the divine.

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Creation, Enough, Strive

Death is not a curse to be outwitted no matter the cost. Death is the natural pivot on which life turns, without which life as we know it could not be. A pro-life-support position is not always a pro-life position. When we can no longer hold on with purpose, to let go is to die with dignity and grace.

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Letting Go, Pro Life, Support

God seeks us as eagerly as we seek God.

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Inspirational

America's egalitarian mandate reflects the liberality of the creator, and thus countermands, by divine witness, all feudal and aristocratic structures. It also parallels the Jewish concept of repair the world, or Tikkun ha'olam, which holds that the human spirit is in partnership with God to help finish the work of creation.

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America, World, Spirit

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