Celebrant:  Martha Schmidt

Tracing back to the Transcendentalists, many Unitarians, Universalists, and Unitarian Universalists have worshipped in ‘the Church of the Big Blue Dome,’ experiencing awe, finding peace, and cultivating a sense of connection to the natural world. Does contemplating the wonders of creation enrich your spiritual life?

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Welcome
Greeting and Announcements
Territorial Acknowledgement
Chalice Lighting and Sung Affirmation
Opening Words
Opening Hymn:  #38, Morning Has Broken
Time for All Ages: On the Day You Were Born, by Debra Frasier
Reeb Benediction
Offertory
Candles of Joys and Sorrows
Meditation:  Waiting to Grow Again, By Jennifer Johnson
Readings: 

• Universalist and Unitarian minister Rev. Thomas Starr King, from a 1863 sermon entitled Lessons from the Sierra Nevada
• Charge from the Earth, by Irene Glasse and Rebekah Savage

Gift of Music
Homily
Closing Hymn: #163, For the Earth Forever Turning
Closing Reading:  Hug the Prayer by Jennifer Pratt-WalterMusical Benediction:  There Is a Love
Embodying the Flame
Spoken Benediction

Topics: Emergence