Some days we can’t see the joy that surrounds us. So caught up inside ourselves, we take when we should give.” These are the words from “Thankful”, just one of the songs Chorealis will sing as we take time to notice the abundance around us. Join us in stretching our gratitude muscles.
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Some days we can’t see the joy that surrounds us. So caught up inside ourselves, we take when we should give.” These are the words from “Thankful”, just one of the songs Chorealis will sing as we take time to notice the abundance around us. Join us in stretching our gratitude muscles.
Creating Pathways: Letting Go. May 11, 2025 Rev. Rosemary Morrison
Unitarian Church of Edmonton (UCE)
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Creating Pathways: Letting Go. May 11, 2025 Rev. Rosemary Morrison
Creating Pathways: Letting Go
May 11, 2025
Rev. Rosemary Morrison
Service Leader: Brandie-Moller Reid
Order of Service
Chimes
Welcome and Announcements
Land Acknowledgement
Prelude
Chalice Lighting
Mother's Day Chalice Lighting by Claudene (Deane) Oliva
We light this chalice for mothers and mothering;
to celebrate those who have taken on the task of nurturing a young one-baby, child, or youth-into adulthood;
to celebrate those who have nourished the light of truth and compassion in growing minds and hearts;
to celebrate those who have committed time, money, energy to the growth of others in this world.
We light this chalice to celebrate and hold dear this flame of love.
By Claudene (Deane) Oliva
Hymn 188 Come, Come Whoever You Are
Sharing Our Abundance
Hymn 402 From You I Receive (Sing 2X)
Candles of Joy and Concern
Pastoral Response
Hymn 301 Touch the Earth, Reach the Sky
Service Leader Reflection
Responsive Reading Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
__You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
__Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
__Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.
__Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
Video Martyn Joseph Folding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZNYWxbpvTQ
Reading
Meditation
Message
Hymn 1020 Woyaya
Extinguishing the Flame
Let us sing the magic of Imagination by Susan L. Van Dreser
Let us sing the magic of imagination by which we know one another and learn the lives of eras gone by.
Let us sing the magic of creation by which we build the world of our soul and teach its wisdom to others, young and old.
Let us sing the magic of our lives together, holding and shaping by the movement of breath from heart to lung all new life that is to come.
Go now with singing. Go now with magic in your fingertips. Touch this world with life.
Benediction
Carry the Flame
Postlude
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Some days we can’t see the joy that surrounds us. So caught up inside ourselves, we take when we should give.” These are the words from “Thankful”, just one of the songs Chorealis will sing as we take time to notice the abundance around us. Join us in stretching our gratitude muscles.
