Celebrant:  Molly Smith

Why am I hopeful? For the same reason I breathe air, drink water, and seek love. To hope is to choose life, whatever it may bring. Even in desperate times, we can find this unbreakable thing inside ourselves and let it guide us until we ultimately, inevitably, find our way back to better days.

Recent service and homily recordings.

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Welcome
Greeting and Announcements
Territorial Acknowledgement
Chalice Lighting and Sung Affirmation
Opening Words
Opening Hymn:  #346, Come, Sing a Song With Me
Time for All Ages: Lighting the First Advent Candle:  Hope
Reeb Benediction
Offertory
Candles of Joys and Sorrows
Reading #1:  “Hope” is the thing with feathers, by Emily Dickinson
Reading #2:  from The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Meditation in Silence
Gift of Music:  Rush of Blood to the Head by Coldplay
Homily
Closing Hymn:  #95, There Is More Love Somewhere
Closing Reading:  from Howard Zinn
Musical Benediction:  There Is a Love
Embodying the Flame
Spoken Benediction

 

Topics: Perseverance