Gathering Music (9:55 - Dorothy Bognar)
Welcome (Martha Larson)
Announcements (Ellen Williams)
Centering
Prelude
“Brazilian Sleigh Ride”
by Percy Faith
Performed by Dorothy Bognar
Chalice Lighting
#544 "New Year's Day"
by Kathleen McTigue
The first of January is another day dawning, the sun rising as the sun always rises, the earth moving in its rhythms.
With or without our calendars to name a certain day as the day of new beginning, separating the old from the new
So it is: everything is the same, bound into its history as we ourselves are bound.
Yet also we stand at a threshold, the new year something truly new, still unformed, leaving a stunning power in our hands.
What shall we do with this great gift of Time, this year?
Let us begin by remembering that whatever justice, whatever peace and wholeness might bloom in our world this year,
We are the hearts and minds, the hands and feet, the embodiment of all the best visions of our people.
The new year can be a new ground for the seeds of our dreams.
Let us take the step forward together, onto new ground.
Planting our dreams well, faithfully, and in joy.
Introducing the Service
Opening Hymn
#346 “Come Sing a Song with Me”
words and music by Carolyn Mcdade
Come sing a song with me
Come sing a song with me
Come sing a song with me
That I might know your mind.
Chorus
And I'll bring you hope
When hope is hard to find
And I'll bring a song of love
and a rose in the wintertime.
Come dream a dream with me ...
Come walk in rain with me...
Come share a rose with me ...
Visitors, Joys and Concerns
Musical Response
Song
“Years May Come, Years May Go”
Words and music by Andre Pope and Jack Fishman
Performed by Pat Eaton-Robb, ukele and vocals;
and Jenn Richard, guitar and vocals
Let's take a look behind
And see what we can find
Last year has gone for everyone
Passed with time
What happened to us then
Can't happen once again
And what's now all to me?
History
Years may come (Many years are still ahead)
Years may go (Many years have passed)
Some go fast (They belong to yesterday)
Some go slow (Still the memories last)
Some are good (Couldn't stop the laughter flowing)
Some are bad (Couldn't stop the tears)
For each one (Thank the Lord that we have been)
Just be glad (Together through the years)
Whenever I review
The lovin' times with you
I wouldn't change a single page
We've lived through
It wasn't always smooth
Sometimes we'd jump the groove
We've shed some tears and then
Loved again.
Years may come (Many years are still ahead)
Years may go (Many years have passed)
Some go fast (They belong to yesterday)
Some go slow (Still the memories last)
Some are good (Couldn't stop the laughter flowing)
Some are bad (Couldn't stop the tears)
For each one (Thank the Lord that we have been)
Just be glad (Together through the years)
Heartaches I don't doubt
Life's sure to dish us out
We'll beat the lot and that is what
Life's all about
Whatever may come true
Ahead for me and you
Someday it all will be
Memories.
Offertory Words
Offertory Music
“Footprints in the Snow”
by Claude Debussy
Introducing the Speakers
Homilies:
Micah Baxter
Musical Interlude
Maureen Flanagan
Musical Interlude
Pat Eaton-Robb
Closing Hymn #6
“Just As Long As I Have Breath”
words by Alicia S. Carpenter; music by Johann G. Ebeling
Just as long as I have breath,
I must answer "yes" to life,
though with pain I made my way,
Still with hope I meet each day
If they ask what I did well,
Tell them I said "yes" to life.
Just as long as vision lasts,
I must answer "yes" to truth,
In my dream and in my dark,
Always that elusive spark
If they ask what I did well,
tell them I said "yes" to truth.
Just as long as my heart beats, I must answer "yes" to love
Disappointment pierced me through,
Still I kept on loving you.
If they ask what I did best,
Tell them I said "yes" to love.
Extinguishing the Chalice and Closing Words
#694 by Frederick E. Gillis
May the Love which overcomes all differences,
which heals all wounds,
which puts to flight all fears,
which reconciles all who are separated,
be in us and among us
now and always
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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