Reading From Bad Feminist: Essays, by Roxane Gay This morning’s reading is by Roxane Gay, a professor of English at Purdue University. It’s from her book of essays entitled Bad Feminist. I openly embrace the label of bad feminist. I do so because I am flawed and human. I am not terribly well versed in feminist history. I am not as well…
Sounding the Singing Bowl (Judy) Prelude La Cinquantaine, by Gabriel Marie Welcome and Announcements (Board Member) Opening Hymn #118 This Little Light of Mine This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shineThis little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shineThis little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shineLet it shine, let it shine, let it shine. Everywhere I…
Sounding the Singing Bowl (Nancy) Prelude (Choir) Welcome and Announcements (Board Member) Opening Hymn #188 “Come, Come, Whoever You Are” Come, Come whoever you are,Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.Ours is no caravan of despair.Come, yet again, come. Call to Worship (Denis)Mother Earth, Father Time,Energy of the ever-expanding Universe,That which holds all:You are here with us this morning,To celebrate your creative abundance, and…
Sounding of the Singing Bowl (Justin) Prelude Welcome, Welcome Clif Hardin (Choir) Welcome and Announcements (Dick Hurwitz) Opening Hymn #1017 We Are Building a New Way We are building a new way (3x)Feeling stronger every dayWe are building a new way We are working to be free (3x)Hate and greed and jealousyWe are working to be free We can feed our every…
This month we have been looking at the question of emotional tone in our relationships, and how we might help to warm them up. Two weeks ago we celebrated Valentine’s Day with the message to come right out and say it when we love someone, be it a partner, family member or friend. Last week we looked at the importance of really…
Last week, in our multi-generational, valentines service, I tried to talk about the importance of coming right out and saying it when we love someone. That was the beginning of a three week focus on warming up relationships in our personal lives, our family lives (however you define family) and in our larger communities as well. Next week will be the final…
Valentine’s Day reminds us that it’s good to come right out and SAY IT! We do, of course, say it without the words, per se, in lots of what we say and do. You primary breadwinners say it every day when the clock goes off while it is still dark out, and you are still heavy with sleep deprivation, and you get…
First Reading: Portions of the poem “Instructions to Painters & Poets” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti from his anthology How to Paint Sunlight I asked a hundred painters and a hundred poetshow to paint sunlighton the face of life.Their answers were ambiguous and ingenuous,as if they were all guarding trade secrets. Whereas it seems to meall you have to dois conceive of the whole worldand…
First Reading: From Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die by John Izzo To live wisely we must recognize that there are two fundamental truths of a human life. The first is that we have a limited and undefined amount of time, it may be one hundred years, it may be thirty. The second is that, in that limited and undefined amount of…
Reading: “In a Mother’s Womb” (unattributed) In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.” “Nonsense,” said the first baby. “There is no life after delivery. What…