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Opening Words  -  Marianne Hachten Cotter

Welcome to this place of possibility!
This is love's hearth, the home of hope,
     a refuge for minds in search of truth
         unfolding, ever beautiful, ever strange.

Here, compassion is our shelter,
     freedom our protection
     from the storms of bigotry and hate.

In this abode, may we find comfort and courage.
Here may our sight become vision
     to see the unseen,
     to glimpse the good that is yet to be.

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, 28. Visit UUA Bookstore.

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