Order of Service: Oct. 15, 2017 "Growing Up & Liking It"
Date of Service:
October 15, 2017
15 October 2017 Growing Up & Liking It
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*Gathering Hymn #163 For the Earth Forever Turning
Call to Worship Rev. Kikanza Nuri-Robins, worship associate
Chalice Lighting Everything must change; nothing stays the same.
The young become the old, and mysteries unfold.
Winter turns to spring; a wounded heart will heal.
There are not many things in life you can be sure of,
Except rain comes from the clouds,
Sun lights up the sky, and hummingbirds fly.
That's the way of time;
nothing and no one goes unchanged. (Bernard Ighner)
Music for the Morning Change the World (9am) Kennedy, Sims & Kirkpatrick
Mood Indigo (11am) by Ellington, arr. Swift
Welcome
*Opening Hymn #210 Wade in the Water
*Covenant Love is the doctrine of this church.
The quest for truth is its sacrament,
And service is its prayer.
To dwell together in peace,
To seek knowledge in freedom,
To serve humankind in fellowship,
Thus do we covenant with each other.
*Hymn of Praise
Offering for the Westside Food Bank
Time for All Ages The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein
Song of Blessing #118 This Little Light of Mine
This little light of mine...
Everywhere I go...
All around the world...
Life Together
Pulpit Message
Offering
Offertory Anthem Everything Must Change (9am) Quincy Jones
Don’t You Let Nobody (11am) arr. Lena McLin
Devotional Time
Responsive Reading A Litany for Survival Audre Lorde
Pastoral Prayer Hebrew Scriptures Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
A message from The Teacher
Silence
Sung Response
Sermon Growing Up and Liking It Rev. Kikanza Nuri-Robins
Going Deeper Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves...
Don’t search for the answers,
they could not be given to you now,
because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps then, someday in the future,
you will gradually, without even noticing it,
live your way into the answer. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
*Closing Hymn Lean on Me
*Benediction
Musical or Choral Benediction
Invitation to Fellowship
*Please stand in body or in spirit
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Greeters: [9am: Audrey Lyness] [11am: Roberta Frye, Wendi Gladstone & David Olson]
Ushers: [9am: Bonnie Brae & Peggy Kharraz] [11am: Nina Emerson & Michael Young]
Coffee: [9am: Alice Hall & Kit Shaw] [11am: Sheila Cummins & Pam Teplitz]
Welcome Table: [9am & 11am: Wendi Gladstone]
Bookstore: [9am & 11am: Sarah Harper]
Service Notes
Today, 40% of our offering will go to the Napa and Santa Rosa UU Congregation’s Ministerial Discretionary fund to go directly to immediate relief of those most affected by the fires.
A Litany for Survival
~ Audre Lorde
For those of us who live at the shoreline
standing upon the constant edges of decision
crucial and alone
for those of us who cannot indulge
the passing dreams of choice
who live in doorways coming and going
in the hours between dawns
looking inward and outward
at once before and after
seeking a now that can breed
futures
like bread in our children's mouths
so their dreams will not reflect
the death of ours:
For those of us
who were imprinted with fear
like a faint line in the center of our foreheads
learning to be afraid with our mother's milk
for by this weapon
this illusion of some safety to be found
the heavy-footed hoped to silence us
For all of us
this instant and this triumph
We were never meant to survive.
And when the sun rises we are afraid
it might not remain
when the sun sets we are afraid
it might not rise in the morning
when our stomachs are full we are afraid
of indigestion
when our stomachs are empty we are afraid
we may never eat again
when we are loved we are afraid
love will vanish
when we are alone we are afraid
love will never return
and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive.
~ (Responsive Reading, October 15, 2017)
Pastoral Prayer from the Hebrew Scriptures
A message from The Teacher, (Ecclesiastes 3:1-11)
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
I have seen the burden laid on the human race. Everything is made beautiful in its time.
~ (Pastoral Prayer, October 15, 2017)