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Chalice Lighting  -  Lindsay Bates

To face the world's darkness --
     a chalice of light.
To face the world's coldness --
     a chalice of warmth.
To face the world's terrors --
     a chalice of courage.
To face the world's turmoil --
     a chalice of peace.
May its glow fill our spirits, our hearts, and our lives.

Source: 1997 UUMA Worship Materials Collection

Published in modified form in Rejoice Together: Prayers, Meditations, and Other Readings for Family, Individual, and Small-Group Worship, ed. by Helen R. Pickett, Boston: Skinner House Books, 1995, 39. Visit UUA Bookstore.

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