Focus: “We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.”

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.

Let us be as open vessels that God’s spirit may enter. The Community Gathers: Experience God’s presence in the assembly.

Focus: We’re all just walking each other home. — Ram Dass

“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

“Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us.” Mimi Novic

Threshold Moment: Amazing Colors of Spring

Focus: 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

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

Focus: “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.”

Focus: Sue Maccalous, Poem by Mary Oliver Threshold Moment: Heather Davis, “Acknowledging and Honoring our own Sensitive Selves”.

L: Out of the earth Rises light, Rises life, Rises spring. All: May we join with the iracle that is springtime and enter into life with lightness and joy.

L: Come and remember the love of Jesus, gathered at table with his friends. All: We come to receive from Christ the bread of life, the cup of blessing;

Focus:  Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. 

Focus:  A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”   ― Antoine de Saint-Exupery Threshold

Focus: “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”   — Maya Angelou Threshold Moment:  Centering Time   (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFjNxztJFKg&feature=emb_logo) Welcome:  Gathering Music: Healing

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

Focus: It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. —Joseph Campbell

Focus: “In the flush of love’s light / we dare be brave / and suddenly we see / that love costs all we are /

Focus: Threshold Moment:  Winter’s Light by Tim Janishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyr6GVeLno&t=96s Welcome:  This week’s Psalm brings home this message: we are in an intimate relationship with God. There is nowhere

Focus:   “Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”    ― David Richo Welcome:  Music: God Is Holding Your Life 

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. Threshold