As we spend more and more time in artificial spaces, it’s easy to think of the human and nonhuman worlds as distinct and separate. While we often long for a deeper connection to nature, what if we’ve never really been apart? What if we are as enmeshed with the world around us as a frog in a pond? Come meditate on our deep connections with the living and nonliving world—our community, in the largest sense.
Welcome
Greeting and Announcements
Territorial Acknowledgement
Chalice Lighting and Sung Affirmation
Opening Words
Opening Hymn: #21, For the Beauty of the Earth
Time for All Ages: We Are All Me
Reeb Benediction
Offertory
Candles of Joys and Sorrows
Meditation: A Prayer of Emptying
Reading: by Rumi
Gift of Music: Fading Dream, by Ancient Future
Homily
Closing Hymn: #134, Our World Is One World
Closing Reading: by Albert Einstein
Musical Benediction: There Is a Love
Embodying the Flame
Spoken Benediction: a poem by William Henry Dawson