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Wondrous Service yesterday at Community UU Pasco, WA. Great music by Choir, fun Children's Circle, and I got carried away with my sermon: a lover's quarrel with democracy. I felt we manifest and shared a powerful spirit. Many hands followed service with inside and out facility spring clean up. Thanks All.
Tomorrow's call to worship:
Let us remember the ancestors…
They gathered by rivers, shores, respectful of the mystery and power of water.
They gathered on ridges, mountains, high places honoring the vastness of the skies.
They gathered in meadows, pastures, and forests embracing the shared life of creation.
Beginning with awareness of the other they first sought safety for what they feared.
Beginning with appreciation of their dependency they sought satisfaction for what they needed.
Their times are past, their recognitions are different from what we see today.
Their ways served and for good as well as ill bequeathing us our inheritances.
While we are different in our ways from them we seek as they sought:
Courage to face our troubles and the resources to secure our life.
Let us enlarge on their experiences and be bold in challenging those choices that made toxic the gifts.
May we learn from their lessons – how precious, fragile, and vital is our interdependency, physically and spiritually.
Let us be humble before that with is greater: the eternal mystery in which we live and move and have our being.
And may with loving hands and open minds we acknowledge and claim the myriad blessings of being and seek to honor and share those gifts with fresh resolve.
Let it be.
© Doak M Mansfield 4/14/2018
10:30 AM every Sunday: 2819 W. Sylvester in Pasco, WA. Serving freedom of the spirit and mind since 1948 in the Tri-Cities. All welcome as they are and as who they are...