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.
The Heart and Soul of UCE
May 18, 2025
Rev Rosemary Morrison and the Pastoral Care TEam
Order of Service
Chimes
Welcome and Announcements
Land Acknowledgement
Prelude
Chalice Lighting We Light Our Chalice Imagining by Rev. Brigitte Bechtold
We light our chalice, imagining
What lies in the liminal space
Between the flame and its circle
What dwells in the interstitial space
Between the cracks in our lives’ pavements
And the threads of our days’ fabrics
What meanings are hidden
Between the words that we know
And those we have yet to conceptualize
What compassion flutters
Between me and you and all of us
Between the known and the mystery
And we color it all with love
Hymn 354 We Laugh, We Cry. by S.J. Denham
Sharing Our Abundance
Candles of Joy and Concern
Pastoral Response
Service Leader Reflection Rev. Rosemary
Time for All Ages Gloria Krenbrenk and her Power Song!
Reading Love after Love by Derek Walcott
The time will come
When, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
At your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here, Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine, Give break. Give back your heart
To itself, to the stranger who has loved you
All your lie, whom you ignored
For another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes,
Peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Hymn 1023 Building Bridges. Quaker round
Service Leader Reflection Gloria Krenbrenk
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WO-KjEvEG0&t=341s
Service Leader Reflection Carol Hutchings
Meditation
Meditation Music 1053 How Could Anyone
Service Leader Reflection Alec Mooji
Moment of Reflection
Hymn 1008 When Our Heart is in a Holy Place by L Roderick
Extinguishing the Flame
Benediction
Postlude
Carry the Flame
Unitarian Church of Edmonton (UCE)
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.
