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Opening Words  -  Carl Seaburg

Let there be joy in our coming together this morning.
Let there be truth heard in the words we speak
     and the songs we sing.
Let there be help and healing for our disharmony and despair.
Let there be silence for the voice within us and beyond us.
Let there be joy in our coming together.

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, 30. Visit UUA Bookstore.

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