Gathering Music
Welcome and Announcements
Prelude
"The Oneness of Everything"
Words/Music by Jim Scott
Opening Words: "The Mockingbird" by Mary Oliver
Chalice Lighting
Opening Hymn
#1007 "There's a River Flowin' in My Soul"
Words/Music: Rose Sanders
There's a river flowin' in my soul.
There's a river flowin' in my soul.
And it's tellin' me that I'm somebody.
There's a river flowin' in my soul.
There's a river flowin' in my heart ...
There's a river flowin' in my mind ...
Introduction to the Service
Joys and Concerns
Musical Interlude
1st Homily (Coryn Clark)
Musical Interlude
Offering
Continuing our practice of sharing our gifts with the community beyond our walls, fifty percent of our Sunday plate collections for the month of December will go to three area shelters: McKinney Men's Shelter (Hartford), East Hartford Community Shelter, and Cornerstone Shelter (Rockville).
Offering Music
"The Forest Primeval"
Improvisational piano piece by Mary Bopp
2nd Homily (Sandy Johnson)
Musical Interlude
3rd Homily (Alan Ayers)
Closing Hymn
#21 "For the Beauty of the Earth"
Words/music: Jason Shelton
For the beauty of the earth, for the splendor of the skies,
For the love which from our birth over and around us lies:
Source to all, to thee we raise this,
our hymn of grateful praise.
For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's de-light,
For the mystic harmony linking sense to sound and sight:
Source of all, to thee we raise this,
our hymn of grateful praise.
For the wonder of each hour of the day and of the night,
hill and vale and tree and flower, sun and moon and stars of light:
Source of all, to thee we raise this,
our hymn of grateful praise.
For the joy of human care, sister, brother, parent, child,
for the kinship we all share, for all gentle thoughts and mild:
Source of all, to thee we raise this,
our hymn of grateful praise.
Reading: "Poem of the World" by Mary Oliver
Extinguishing the Chalice
Closing Circle
May faith in the spirit of life
And hope for the community of earth
And love of the light in each other
Be ours now, and in all the days to come.
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