Things We Say At Services

Chalice Lighting
    May the light we now kindle/Inspire us to use our powers/
    To heal and not to hurt/To help and not to hinder/
    To bless and not to curse/to serve you, Spirit of Freedom.

Story for All Ages
    Go Now in Peace/Go Now In Peace/May the Spirit of Love
    Surround you/Everywhere/Everywhere you may go.

Chalice Extinguishing
    We extinguish this flame but not the light of truth, the warmth of community,
    or the fire of commitment. These we carry in our hearts until we are together
    again.

Wow Poem -- Pandemic by Lynn Ungar

Pandemic

What if you thought of it
as the Jews consider the Sabbath—
the most sacred of times?
Cease from travel.
Cease from buying and selling.
Give up, just for now,
on trying to make the world
different than it is.
Sing. Pray. Touch only those
to whom you commit your life.
Center down.

And when your body has become still,
reach out with your heart.
Know that we are connected
in ways that are terrifying and beautiful.
(You could hardly deny it now.)
Know that our lives
are in one another’s hands.
(Surely, that has come clear.)
Do not reach out your hands.
Reach out your heart.
Reach out your words.
Reach out all the tendrils
of compassion that move, invisibly,
where we cannot touch.

Promise this world your love–
for better or for worse,
in sickness and in health,
so long as we all shall live.

–Lynn Ungar 3/11/20

From http://www.lynnungar.com/poems/pandemic/

When I read this poem I said the author sounds like a unitarian universalist.

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