Link to Sermon Order of Worship Let us be as open vessels that God’s spirit may enter. The Community Gathers:  Experience God’s presence in the

Let us be as open vessels that God’s spirit may enter.
The Community Gathers: Experience God’s presence in the assembly. Please greet one another with joy and welcome new friends into our community of love.
You are welcome here…come and worship!

“Everything Between Faith and Works”
Let us be as open vessels that God’s spirit may enter.
The Community Gathers: Experience God’s presence in the assembly. Please greet one another with joy and welcome new friends into our community of love.
You are welcome here…come and worship!

Let us be as open vessels that God’s spirit may enter.
The Community Gathers: Experience God’s presence in the assembly. Please greet one another with joy and welcome new friends into our community of love.
You are welcome here…come and worship!

“God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfigura-tion. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laugh-ter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God’s world.” -Archbishop Desmond Tutu

For there is always light, if only we are brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it.      -Amanda Gorman

“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” “Each person must live their life as a model for others.” “I would like to be re-membered as a person who wanted to be free…so other people would also be free.” -Rosa Parks

Water is one of the most ancient symbols of our faith. It was water that the Israelites came through into freedom. It was water that Jesus was baptized in. It was water by which he called the disciples. It was water that he used to teach his disciples
how to be servants to all. Today we take a Journey of our own Discipleship through water and the Spirit. We let go of all things we do not need. We remember our belovedness. We recommit to serve others with joy. So let us now go down to the river to pray…

Let us be as open vessels that God’s spirit may enter.
The Community Gathers: Experience God’s presence in the assembly. Please greet one another with joy and welcome new friends into our community of love.
You are welcome here…come and worship!

We Can’t Go Alone Link to Sermon Order of Worship   Let us be as open vessels that God’s spirit may enter. The Community Gathers: 

“Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend… when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present — love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure — the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.” –Sarah Ban Breathnach

Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it’s what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of all. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love others, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can hear truth in themselves, often for the first time. And in the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone. Eventually you may hear, in everyone and beyond everyone, the Unseen singing softly to itself and you.”

—Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom, Stories that Heal

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”

                                                               -Albert Schweitzer

“We seek to remember that blessing comes in meeting the authentic call of the moment with greater compassion. There are always inner voices that focus on what is wrong in ourselves, in others, and in our world. There are always opportunities to act unkindly. But each moment offers us the opportunity to step into our freedom with greater awareness. The Way of One is a Way of deep compassion, healing, and forgiveness. It’s a choice we are challenged to make again and again.”

Rabbi Ted Falco

Lord… Let every ray of sunshine on my face, every touch of warmth upon my back, every cooling breeze upon my cheek, every bloom along my path, every splash of green across blue skies: tell me of your beauty, reveal your awesome glory, herald your good news and remind me to raise a joyful prayer of praise for the beauty of the earth… Amen.     

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh.”        ~ Kahlil Gibran

“Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.”

“Jesus didn’t say, ‘Blessed are those who care for the poor.’ He said, ‘Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.’ It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion.” Henri Nouwen

But listen to me For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms all around you.                                                          Rumi

“To be a person is to have a story to tell.” – Isak Dinesen