THE POETRY OF UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISTS
Welcome
Lighting the Chalice Flame:
Come, come, whoever you are -
Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.
Ours is no caravan of despair.
Come, yet again come.
Affirmation: Love is the spirit of this Congregation and service is its law. This is our great covenant: to dwell together in peace, to seek the truth in love and to help one another.
Introduction of Visitors
Reading: Songs for the People, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Read by Lynn Pernezny
Hymn: #21 For the Beauty of the Earth
Reading: The Work of Happiness, May Sarton – Read by Amy Stauber
Time for All Ages: David Traupman
Moment of Silence & Candle Lighting --Reading for Meditation: Diving for Dreams, e.e. cummings – Read by Pat Knight
Children's Faith Development Program: Go now in peace, go now in peace; may the spirit of love surround you everywhere, everywhere you may go.
Social Justice Minute
Reading: The Garden By Moonlight, Amy Lowell – Read by David Traupman
Offertory: Change (C. Underwood)
Readings:
•In Chains, William Carlos Williams -- Read by Nickie Albert
•Blackberrying, Sylvia Plath -- Read by Suzanne Schluter
•Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life, Henry David Thoreau -- Read by Paul Ward
•The Early Bird, Ted Kooser -- Read by Carol Baxter
•For You O Democracy, Walt Whitman -- Read by Nickie Albert
Extinguishing the Chalice Flame:
We extinguish this flame, but not the light of truth, the warmth of community, or the fire of commitment. These we carry in our hearts until we are together again.
Closing Reading: Angels, Mary Oliver – Read by Nickie Albert
Postlude: Come Sail Away (D. DeYoung)
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