Readings

Litany for Peace

Leader: We are caught in an escapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Injustice everywhere is a threat to justic everywhere.

People: It is possible to live in peace.

Leader: If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am for myself alone, what am I? And if not now, when?

People: It is possible to live in peace.

Leader: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

People: It is possible to live in peace.

Leader: Peace means the beginning of a new world. It means that the nations are friends; it means joy to the world.

People: It is possible to live in peace.

Leader: People say, what is the sense of our small effort. They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

People: It is possible to live in peace.

Leader: Whatever form we are, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing; a lifelong sharing of love with others.

People: It is possible to live in peace.

Leader: Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear, only love can do that.

People: It is possible to live in peace.

Leader: Peace is like spring after winter; it brings sunshine to the world; it is like sweet music after harsh sounds.

People: It is possible to live in peace.

Leader: No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

People: It is possible to live in peace.

Leader: Let justice roll down like waters, an drighteousness like an everflowing stream.

People: It is possible to live in peace.

Leader: We must purue peaceful ends through peaceful means. We shall hew out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

People: It is possible to live in peace.

-- Rev. Sarah Lammert
Unitarian Society of Ridgewood, NJ

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