readings and music from Sunday

[bronze_ribbons]

(numbers correspond to Singing the Living Tradition, the hymnal used by many Unitarian Universalist congregations. Also, the worship coordinator picked Ani DiFranco's "Harvest" as the prelude and Ben Harper's "Momma's Got a Girlfriend Now" as the postlude.)

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Opening words: Let Us Worship by Kenneth L. Patton (#437)

Opening hymn: "Come, Come, Whoever You Are" - adapted from Rumi; melody by Lynn Adair Ungar (#188)

Come, come, whoever you are,
Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving,
Ours is no caravan of despair.
Come, yet again come.

Responsive reading: Beginners - Denise Levertov (#648)

Meditation Hymn: "Where Is Our Holy Church?" (#113)

Where is our holy church?
Where race and class unite
as equal persons in the search
for beauty, truth, and right.

Where is our holy writ?
Where’er a human heart
a sacred torch of truth has lit,
by inspiration taught.

Where is our holy One?
a mighty host respond;
the people rise in every land
to break the captive's bond.

Where is our holy land?
Within the human soul,
wherever free minds truly seek
with character the goal.

Where is our paradise?
in aspiration’s sight,
wherein we hope to see arise
ten thousand years of right.

Edwin Henry Wilson

Closing Hymn - "Just As Long As I Have Breath" (#6) [lyrics quoted here, halfway down the page]

Benediction - by Lauralyn Bellamy (#692):

If, here, you have found freedom,
take it with you into the world.

If you have found comfort,
go and share it with others.

If you have dreamed dreams,
help one another,
they may come true!

If you have known love,
give some back
to a bruised and hurting world.

Go in peace.