This annual contemplative service is centered on the ritual of burning the things from the previous year we are ready to let go of- and holding on to the things we have learned and want to carry forward with us.
Welcome and Announcements
Territorial Acknowledgement
Chalice Lighting and Sung Affirmation
Opening Words: by Amy Bowden Freedman
Opening Hymn: #389, Gathered Here
Time for All Ages
Reeb Benediction
Offertory
Candles of Joys & Sorrows
Meditation
Hymn: #1009, Meditation on Breathing
Readings
Gift of Music
Homily
Burning the old Year, by Naomi Shihab Nye
The Journey, by Mary Oliver
Storage, by Mary Oliver
Burning Bowl Ritual
By Lois Van Leer
Musical Response: I Will Be Gentle with Myself
Ritual of Hope and Transformation
Musical Response
Musical Benediction: There Is a Love
Embodying the Flame
Spoken Benediction
Topics: Emergence