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.
When Turkeys Fly: Doing the Impossible with Gratitude October 12, 2025
Unitarian Church of Edmonton (UCE)
1 hour 11 minutes 44 seconds
3 weeks ago
When Turkeys Fly: Doing the Impossible with Gratitude October 12, 2025
When Turkeys Fly:
Doing the Impossible with Gratitude
October 12, 2025
Reverend Rosemary Morrison
Service Leader: Yvonne Mireau
Order of Service
Chimes
Welcome and Announcements
Land Acknowledgement
Prelude
Chalice Lighting
Come into this circle of community. Come into this sacred space. By Andrew Pakula
Come into this circle of community. Come into this sacred space.
Be not tentative. Bring your whole self!
Bring the joy that makes your heart sing.
Bring your kindness and your compassion.
Bring also your sorrow, your pain.
Bring your brokenness and your disappointments.
Spirit of love and mystery; help us to recognize the spark of the divine that resides within each of us.
May we know the joy of wholeness.
May we know the joy of being together.
Hymn 349 We Gather Together by Dorothy C. Senghas
Sharing Our Abundance
Hymn 402 From You I Receive (Sing 2X)
Service Leader Reflection
Hymn 346 Come, Sing a Song with Me by Carolyn McDade
Meditation
Candles of Joy and Concern
Video Grateful – Empty Hands Music – not recorded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO2o98Zpzg8
Gratitude Activity
Greet your neighbours while bringing up your non-perishable items
Reading
Message
Hymn 131 Love Will Guide Us by Sally Rogers
Extinguishing the Flame
When the world numbs… by Rev. Cameron Trimble
Spirit of Breath,
When the world numbs, soften us.
Melt the armor we’ve built around our own tenderness.
Guard us not with distance, but with discernment.
Help us feel deeply without drowning.
Let us carry pain without being consumed by it.
Let us keep loving without illusion.
May our hearts of flesh remain
responsive, vulnerable, and true
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.
