“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.

“Matthew loved the magi. He gave their story more square inches of text than he gave the narrative of the birth of Jesus. He never mentions the shepherds or the manger, but he didn’t want us to miss the star and the seekers. It’s easy to see why. Their story is our story. “

  Max Lucado

Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.

                                                                                    Sarah Ban Breathnach

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

                                                                                      Ralph Waldo Emerson

Upon this moment, upon this people,
upon this place, the holy comes.
And sacred knowing brings sacred being for sacred doing of God’s plan.                -Michelle Currie

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.

Doxology:  Praise God from whom all blessings flow, Praise God all creatures here below. Praise God above ye heavenly hosts, Cre-ator, Christ and Holy Ghost.  Amen.

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.

Focus: I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G.K. Chesterton

Focus: “We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our
exploring will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the
first time.”   
                                                           T. S. Elliot

Focus: “Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

Focus: “Our children are our greatest treasure. There can be no keen-er revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its chil-dren.”
— Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa

Focus: “None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.”

– Mother Teresa

Focus:  The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.                                 – Helen Keller

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.”                Matthew 5:4

Focus: Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you. L.R. Knost

Focus: Heavenly Rays, As summer into autumn slips,
O give me grace today, To rise and turn as summer’s leaves
Draw life and strength from heavenly rays.                       Emily Dickinson

Focus: A smile starts on the lips, a grin spreads to the eyes, a chuckle comes from the belly; but a good laugh bursts forth from the soul,
overflows, and bubbles all around.       
Carolyn Birmingham