Celebrant:  Michelle Hazen

Every child is born worthy of perfect, unconditional love.  Unfortunately, we who are available to love are human, so love and life are messy.  Luckily, practice is what makes perfect…and how better to spend a life than to practice loving more fully?

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Welcome
Greeting and Announcements
Territorial Acknowledgement
Chalice Lighting and Sung Affirmation
Opening Words
Opening Hymn:  #1012, When I Am Frightened
Time for All Ages:  I Love You Forever, by Robert Munsch
Reeb Benediction
Offertory
Candles of Joys & Sorrows
Meditation:  Those Who Gave Us Life, by Linda Hart
Gift of Music
Readings

Ram Dass, from Be Love Now:  The Path of the Heart
love is a place, by e.e. Cummings

Homily
Closing Hymn:  #354, We Laugh, We Cry
Closing Reading:  Love Abides, by Barbara Pescan
Musical Benediction:  There Is a Love
Embodying the Flame
Spoken Benediction

Topics: Perseverance