Opening – Under Pressure
written by Queen and David Bowie
…It's the terror of knowing what this world is about
Watching some good friends screaming, “Let me out!”…
…Turned away from it all like a blind man
sat on a fence but it didn’t work.
Keep coming up with love but its so slashed and torn…
…Can’t we give ourselves one more chance?
Why can’t we give love that one more chance?
Why can’t we give love, give love, give love…?
…‘Cause love’s such an old-fashioned word and love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night and love dares you to change your way of caring about ourselves. This is our last dance. This is our last dance. This is ourselves under pressure.
Chalice Lighting – The Legacy of Caring Thandeka
All join in reading a phrase, sentence or word as the spirit moves. It is okay for one, some or all voices to speak together:
Despair is my private pain
Born from what I have failed to say
failed to do
failed to overcome.
Be still my inner self
let me rise to you
let me reach down into your pain
and soothe you.
I turn to you
to renew my life
I turn to the world
the streets of the city
the worn tapestries of
brokerage firms
crack dealers
private estates
personal things in the bag lady’s cart
rage and pain in the faces that turn from me
afraid of their own inner worlds.
This common world I love anew
as the life blood of generations
who refused to surrender their humanity
in an inhumane world
courses through my veins.
From within this world
my despair is transformed to hope
and I begin anew
the legacy of caring.
Hymn #55 Dark of Winter
Lighting candles for courage
Please come forward to light a candle as a prayer for courage or to ignite your commitment to something. You may speak this out loud or simply think this silently to yourself.
Listen to the Mustn’ts by Shel Silverstein
Read by Jackson Organ
A Brave and Startling Truth by Maya Angelou
Read by Christine Organ
You Put Your Arms Around Me and I’m Home
by Christina Perri Sung by Kadyn Frawly
Cast All Your Votes for Dancing by Hafiz
Read by Jack Spector-Bishop
Readings from the book Soul to Soul, Chapter on Resilience
Read by Joy Simon
Meditation
Hymn #391 Voice Still and Small
Reflections – Rev. Hilary Krivchenia and Eileen Wiviott
Hymn #396 I Know This Rose Will Open
written by Queen and David Bowie
…It's the terror of knowing what this world is about
Watching some good friends screaming, “Let me out!”…
…Turned away from it all like a blind man
sat on a fence but it didn’t work.
Keep coming up with love but its so slashed and torn…
…Can’t we give ourselves one more chance?
Why can’t we give love that one more chance?
Why can’t we give love, give love, give love…?
…‘Cause love’s such an old-fashioned word and love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night and love dares you to change your way of caring about ourselves. This is our last dance. This is our last dance. This is ourselves under pressure.
Chalice Lighting – The Legacy of Caring Thandeka
All join in reading a phrase, sentence or word as the spirit moves. It is okay for one, some or all voices to speak together:
Despair is my private pain
Born from what I have failed to say
failed to do
failed to overcome.
Be still my inner self
let me rise to you
let me reach down into your pain
and soothe you.
I turn to you
to renew my life
I turn to the world
the streets of the city
the worn tapestries of
brokerage firms
crack dealers
private estates
personal things in the bag lady’s cart
rage and pain in the faces that turn from me
afraid of their own inner worlds.
This common world I love anew
as the life blood of generations
who refused to surrender their humanity
in an inhumane world
courses through my veins.
From within this world
my despair is transformed to hope
and I begin anew
the legacy of caring.
Hymn #55 Dark of Winter
Lighting candles for courage
Please come forward to light a candle as a prayer for courage or to ignite your commitment to something. You may speak this out loud or simply think this silently to yourself.
Listen to the Mustn’ts by Shel Silverstein
Read by Jackson Organ
A Brave and Startling Truth by Maya Angelou
Read by Christine Organ
You Put Your Arms Around Me and I’m Home
by Christina Perri Sung by Kadyn Frawly
Cast All Your Votes for Dancing by Hafiz
Read by Jack Spector-Bishop
Readings from the book Soul to Soul, Chapter on Resilience
Read by Joy Simon
Meditation
Hymn #391 Voice Still and Small
Reflections – Rev. Hilary Krivchenia and Eileen Wiviott
Hymn #396 I Know This Rose Will Open