Celebrant: Wachira Kariuki
Watch the “Wisdom of Elders” video
Our annual service honoring those we have loved and lost will offer us an opportunity to reflect on aging gracefully, accepting our mortality, and learning from those who have gone before us.
Welcome and Announcements
Territorial Acknowledgement
Chalice Lighting and Sung Affirmation
Opening Words
Opening Hymn: #128, For All That Is Our Life
Time for All Ages: My Nana’s Garden by Dawn Casey, illustrated by Jessica Courtney-Tickle
Reeb Benediction
Offertory
Reflections
Video: Aging with Grace
Meditation: Thanks Be for These Meditation by Richard S. Gilbert (abridged)
Gift of Music: Noyana
Reflections
Stones of Remembrance Ritual: Christine Robinson, Meditation and Honoring of our Beloved Deceased
Silence
Communion of Names
Hymn: #6, Just As Long
Closing Reading: by Hunter S. Thompson
Musical Benediction: There Is a Love
Embodying the Flame
Spoken Benediction
Topics: Journey