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Opening Words  -  Tim Haley
May be used as a Meditation

Amid all the noise in our lives,
we take this moment to sit in silence --
     to give thanks for another day;
     to give thanks for all those in our lives
         who have brought us warmth and love;
     to give thanks for the gift of life.

We know we are on our pilgrimage here but a brief moment in time.

Let us open ourselves, here, now,
to the process of becoming more whole --
     of living more fully;
     of giving and forgiving more freely;
     of understanding more completely
         the meaning of our lives here on this earth.

Source: 1997 UUMA Worship Materials Collection

Buy this book from the UUA Bookstore 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, 27. Visit UUA Bookstore.

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