Celebrant: Nancy Nelson

Poetry and music can speak to people across boundaries, communicating ideas that can be too tender for conversation. What are songwriters and poets saying to us now? Songs by Will Fontaine and poetry will help us listen.

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Welcome
Greeting and Announcements
Territorial Acknowledgement
Chalice Lighting and Sung Affirmation
Opening Words
Where have we been?
Poem:  Starchild Prologue, read by Fran Rodriguez
Opening Hymn:  #1003, Where Do We Come From?
Time for All Ages:  Peanut Butter Sandwich by Shel Silverstein, read by Jen Elliott
Reeb Benediction
Where have we been?
What is happening to us?
Song:  The Names, Will Fontaine
Poem:  Fix You, Ryan Urie
Candles of Joys and Sorrows
What is happening to us?
Will it always be this way?
Song:  Old Ways, Will Fontaine
Poem, read responsively:  Surviving, by Amanda Gorman
Poem:  The Crusader, Fran Rodriguez
Poem:  Repair, Restore, Ryan Urie
Offertory
Will it always be this way?
What else is possible?
Song:  Countrymen, Will Fontaine
Poem:  Essex II, by Amanda Gorman
Responsive Reading: Songs for the People, by Frances Harper
What else is possible?
Musical Benediction:  There Is a Love
Poem:  Birdsong, Ryan Urie
Embodying the Flame
Spoken Benediction

Topics: Creativity, Perseverance