Through stories from close to home and around the world, this service will explore where we are today and how we view the future. We will reflect on how perseverance and hope can lead to positive change. As writer Rebecca Solnit reminds us, hope isn’t the certainty that everything will turn out well—it’s the recognition that the future isn’t written yet. Many of our greatest successes happened because people kept working even when the outlook seemed bleak.

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Welcome
Greeting and Announcements
Territorial Acknowledgement
Chalice Lighting and Sung Affirmation
Opening Words
Opening Hymn:  #345, Come Sing a Song with Me
Time for All Ages:  The Carrot Seed, Story by Ruth Krauss, Pictures by Crockett Johnson
Reeb Benediction
Offertory
Candles of Joys and Sorrows
Meditation
Reading:  Toward Goodness, by Jennifer Pratt-Walter
Gift of Music:  #16, Tis a Gift to Be Simple
Homily
Closing Hymn:  #95, There Is More Love Somewhere
Closing Reading
Musical Benediction:  There Is a Love
Embodying the Flame
Spoken Benediction

Topics: Journey