Focus: “Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, storytellers and singers of song.” —Unknown

Focus:
Gathering Music: You Are Welcome Here (by Wiley Beveridge) -Michelle
Currie and Jen Comeau

“Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe–not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things.  Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.” –bell hooks

“We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling.” -Jimmy Neil Smith, Director of the International Storytelling Center

Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy…As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you.
Isaiah 66

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”                                ― Lao Tzu

Focus:  “If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.”     The Buddha

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. Wendell Berry

 It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.                                             -Rainer Maria Rilke

Lord, like the women at the tomb on the first Easter, we come out of our darkness and into your light.

Go forth into the world knowing that the God of love walks with you. May you go in the Peace of Christ…Amen.

In this season of Lent, we pray using an ancient form in the church. The Greek words, “Kyrie Eleison” mean “God, have mercy on us.”  God’s mercy is a gift of love, given freely to us.  

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.

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.

Link to Zoom Service                    “Look for the Resister” Order of Worship Let us be as open vessels that God’s spirit may enter. The Community

Winter is a lesson about the fine art of loss and growth. Its lesson is clear; There is only one way out of struggle and that is by going into its darkness, waiting for the light, and being open to new growth. -Sr. Joan Chittister

“I’m a man of contradictions, a man of many moods. I contain multitudes.”                                                                    Bob Dylan

Focus:  “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle.

Happiness never decreases by being shared.”                  Buddha

Focus: “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” – Coretta Scott King

When the people lack a sense of awe, there will be trouble in the empire.                                                                                          ─ Lao Tzu

Focus:  Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. 
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
                                                            Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.