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Third Order of Service
Take from life its coals, not its ashes. Fan the flames of love and justice; join hands and hearts in common endeavor; and there will be no limit to what we can achieve together.
-- Laurel S. Sheridan
Please rise.
* Acknowledgment of Limitations -
SLT
#476
Read responsively
Before the wonders of life we acknowledge our failures to see and to revere;Before the sanctities of life we are ashamed of our disrespects and indignities;
Before the gifts of life we own that we have made choices of lesser goods, and here today seek the gifts of the spirit;
Before the heroisms of life we would be enlarged to new devotion.
-- Von Ogden Vogt
* Call to Worship - SLT #429
Come into this place of peace and let its silence heal your spirits. Come into this place of memory and let its history warm your soul. Come into this place of prophecy and power and let its vision change your heart.
-- William F. Schulz
* Hymn - SLT #129 - "Let love continue long"
Please be seated.
"Let there be light!"Let it shine in dark places, in moments of pain, in times of grief, in the darkness of hatred, violence, oppression, where there is discouragement and despair.
Wherever darkness is to be put to flight, "Let there be light!"
-- Gordon B. McKeeman
The journeys of our lives are never fully charted. There come to each of us deserts to cross -- barren stretches -- where the green edge on the horizon may be our destination, or an oasis on our way, or a mirage that beckons only to leave us lost.SilenceWhen fear grips the heart, or despair bows the head, may we bend as heart and head lead us down to touch the ground beneath our feet. May we scoop some sand into our hands and receive what the sand would teach us:
It holds the warmth of the sun when the sun has left our sight, as it holds the cool of the night when the stars have faded. Hidden among its grains are tiny seeds, at rest and waiting, dormant yet undefeated.
Desert flowers. They endure. Moistened by our tears and by the rains which come to end even the longest drought, they send down roots and they bloom.
May we believe in those seeds, and in the seeds within us. May we remember in our dry seasons that we, too, are desert flowers. Amen.
-- Margaret Keip, alt.
Sung Response - SLT #345 - "With joy we claim the growing light"
Announcements
Sharing of Gifts - Offertory
If you are proud of this church, become its advocate.Musical Interlude
If you are concerned for it future, share its message.
If its values resonate deep within you, give it a measure of your devotion.
This church cannot survive without your faith, your confidence, your enthusiasm.
Its destiny, the larger hope, rests in your hands.
-- Michael A. Schuler
Sermon
Please rise
* Hymn - SLT #161 - "Peace! the perfect word"
Read in unison
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.* Benediction
-- Edward Everett Hale
Cheered by our community, blessed by our covenant, uplifted in mind, and renewed in spirit, go forth with courage and in peace to meet the days to come. Amen.Postlude
-- Burton D. Carley
Source: Based on an order of Service by First Unitarian Church, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; in Commisson on Common Worship, Leading Congregations in Worship: A Guide, UUA 1983. Additional hymns and readings from Singing the Living Tradition, UUA 1993.
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