“The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day." - Proverbs 4:18 We are called to lead a life which is a reflection of Gods presence. Certainly there will be dark days but as we strive, God is with us... Always.

If each person in this world will simply take a small piece of this huge thing, this amazing quilt, and work it regardless of the color of the yarn, we will have harmony on this planet. - Cicely Tyson

Read John 11: 25,26 Jesus said the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests crucified and after three days rise again. The angels said, "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is risen." It all happened as Christ promised.

Read Luke 24:5 The good news of the resurrection is not that we shall die and go home to be with Jesus, but that he has come home with us, bringing all his hungry, naked, thirsty, sick, prisoner brothers with him. - Clarence Jordan

I do not cease to give thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers. - Ephesians 1:16 Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other. - Randy Pausch

Read Matthew 6:7 When we seek God in prayer, the requirements are very simple: God does not require lofty music or candles or the most exquisite, holy utterances ever offered. No, all God wants is for us to open our hearts.

Read 1 Corinthians 12:12 Give your difference, welcome my difference, unify all difference in the larger whole — such is the law of growth. The unifying of difference is the eternal process of life. - Mary Parker Follett

How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity! - Psalm 133:1 Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another. - Yuri Kochiyama

The Unitarian Christian Association offers its condolences to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II on the death of her dear husband, the Duke of Edinburgh.

“May his name endure forever; may it continue as long as the sun." - Psalm 72:17 The name of God is not to be spoken of in worship alone. Whenever we look at this world in all of its majesty and beauty, let us lift God’s name in prayers of thanksgiving. It is all gift.

Those who say, “I love God,” and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen. - 1 John 4:20

There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love. - Hans Urs von Balthasar, Dare We Hope (1988)

Read Luke 16:10 We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. - Howard Zinn

Those who would build walls are prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function; I'm going to go unbuild walls. We don't have to engage in grand actions to participate in change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. - Ursula K. Le Guin

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is also dead. - James 2:26 It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem. - Coretta Scott King

Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs. - Proverbs 10:12 I firmly believe that hatred, like anger, works on the physical glandular system as well as on the moral fiber of our nation, and in doing so, can bring no positive good. - Margaret Walker

“My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth," - Psalm 139:15 God knows everything about us; our thoughts, our actions, our brokenness, our hopes and our fears. Even so, God loves us completely.

To serve the cause of justice in an unjust world; it cannot be said too often that the work of justice, the vocation of the Servant, is the temporal form of honoring and glorifying God. It is true worship. And the consequences will not be long in coming. - Daniel Berrigan

Read John 3:17 Jesus had a way of talking soft and outside of a few bankers and higher-ups among the con men of Jerusalem everybody liked to have this Jesus around because he wasn’t fake and everything he said went and he helped the sick and gave the people hope. - Carl Sandburg

“I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me." - Psalm 69:2 Despite all our efforts to remain afloat, there are times when we just seem to sink again and again. As Peter cried out: “My Lord and my God, save me!"