Your Body Is Welcome Here
Your body is welcome here, all of it. Yes, even that part. And that part. And yes, even that part. The parts you love, and the parts you don’t. For in this place we come with all that we are All that we have been, And all that we are going to be. Our bodies are constantly changing, cells die and...
Wake Up!
Let us wake up. Not just from the Sunday morning exhaustion, from the wish for a few more drowsy minutes in bed. Let us wake up to this world we live in: to its beauty and wonder, and also to its tragedy and pain. We must wake up to this reality: that not all in our world have what we do, however...
Autumnal Welcoming
Come in, from the crisp morning air outside, come in, wearing the autumn sunlight on your face, come, carrying the turning of the seasons in your heart. Whatever and however the greatness of life is speaking to you now, you are welcome here in our circle of friends.
Hoping, Trusting for So Many Things
Here we have come into this sacred space— quieter now with our readiness Hushed voices, hoping, trusting for so many things: For connection, for communion For inspiration, for information For healing, for wholeness, For words, for music, For celebration and consolation, Here we have come into thi...
Come Sit By Our Fire
Come sit by our fire and let us share stories. Let me hear your tales of far off lands, wanderer, and I will tell you of my travels. Share your experience of the holy with me, worshipper, and I will tell you of that which I find divine. Come and stay, lover of leaving, for ours is no caravan of...
Let Go
Let go Of all that binds you Of all that burdens you Of what you carry Of all that shames you Of fear Of trespasses and transgressions Of woundedness Let go of guilt Let go of anger Let go of small mindedness and pettiness Of ways of being that no longer work for you Of compulsions that consume y...
We Speak the Language of Love
We arrive from many different experiences and backgrounds. Some of us have trouble speaking; others are so young that they’re still learning to talk. Some of us speak English as a second language, and others of us can speak several foreign languages....
Welcoming the Ancestors
The ritual of welcoming and honoring ancestors is an ancient spiritual practice found in many cultures and traditions. Thus we begin this ceremony with paying tribute and expressing gratitude to our ancestors. From our histories our ancestors call to us, asking “whence we come, and how and...
Our Souls Speak Spring
If we lived in another climate Our souls might speak other languages We might speak oasis or permafrost, dry season or monsoon But our souls speak spring Our souls speak green shoots pushing through last year’s leaves Our souls speak flower buds stretching to sun Our souls speak mud puddle and...
Never Fully Extinguished
In this hour of holy stillness we gather to honor the life and the person we love. In this hour of Holy Stillness we remind ourselves that the flames of life and love are never fully extinguished. In this hour of Holy Stillness we offer ourselves for sharing the weight of each other’s grief. In...
In whom will we be reborn?
We come together tonight to remember the history, or the myth, that says hope was born in the form of a baby named Jesus. What is so compelling about the story of Jesus’s birth, his life, his love? Why has this story reached across the ages to us while so many others have faded into history?...
Easter Alleluia
Alleluia to love that is stronger than death—to love that is stronger than empire. Alleluia to love that will never end.
To Pause on the Journey
...we don’t know, can’t anticipate...the paths, unexpected, that open before us.
We Practice Being Called
A call to worship is secretly a call to focus our attention. Choosing to focus our attention is countercultural.
We Come from a People Bound for Freedom
We are bound for freedom, building on foundations laid before us.
Welcome to This Season of Hope
Hope resides in the promise that love can always expand, always meet us, always teach us to cast down the mighty, raise up the broken, and rekindle the truth of our interdependence.
Committed to Respond
Committed to respond to the call of a wounded world… We join together this day with loving hearts, hands and minds. Embracing the interconnected web of water, air and earth… We light a fire of sustaining hope, ever bright with love and justice. May we bring forth this day new wisdom, strength...
Rise!
A: Because the tides are rising B: So must we C: Rise! A: to this moment C: Rise! B: to this day C: Rise! A: to this life B: This place in the web A: That is yours, and ours. C: Rise! B: Because the earth remains A: Our only home C: And we B: Fellow travelers A: Its only hope C: For healing B:...
Empowering the fathers of this world
Today is Father's Day, a day in which we honor and offer gratitude for our fathers, in whatever form or fashion they come into our lives—biological fathers, stepfathers, adoptive and foster fathers, grandfathers, spiritual fathers, and all of the uncles, brothers, and friends who, whether they...
Opening Words for Labor Day
We enter this meeting house for kindness and comfort. May rough-worn hands and aching backs be healed. We enter this meeting house of hope for equality. May those who labor to survive live to know justice. We enter this meeting house of love and vocation. May our bonds of solidarity be strengthened.
Let Your Body Tell the Truth
We are learning to regroup and remember perfection was never the point.
Opening for an Annual Meeting
May we be kind in our speaking, thoughtful in our deliberating, and never stray from the love that binds us together.
Our Holy Hearts, Our Sacred Bits of Soil
There is no separation, here, of the sacred from the profane. No setting apart from the natural world.
Many Hopes in Our Hearts
May our time together honor all the hopes we hold within; may our time together bless us with the gifts of inspiration, comfort and renewal.
Justice Is Our Prayer
Justice is our prayer. We affirm in covenant with the Beloved Community that is possible.
Rejoice with Full Hearts
Rejoice! May this time of worship celebrate what we know at our core.
Let Beauty In
Let beauty in. Let beauty in like waves lapping on the shore, covering the beach and soaking the sand like an embrace.
The Mysterious Pull of the Unanswerable
We join together in solidarity as a covenanted people, who are drawn together by the promise of connection and the mysterious pull of the unanswerable.
May Your Call Be Awakened
If you have come here seeking comfort, may your pain be soothed. If you have come here looking for answers, may you find new questions.…
Agape Love
Agape love—radical, quiet, boundless, unconditional—is the love we have for God, the Universe, the Interconnected Web, for whatever words for Spirit make your soul sing.
For Five Thousand Years, Or More
For five thousand years, or more,more than two hundred fifty generations,human beings have been invoking spiritual power.My predecessors, and yours,have gathered togetherto make sense of their livesand their place in the cosmos.And they have spoken aloud,and invited what they conceived as sacred ...
Love Invites Us
… Love is not only at the center but also the opening that invites us to lament, celebrate, and care.
This Faith
Let us be a faith that gathers, reaching for one another through the walls of hate others build, through the cages of ignorance and arrogance, and through the fear that burns city streets....
The Heart of Our Faith
What is it That calls you here That calls you onward That calls you inward That leads you homeward? What is it That gives you the power To make that change To ask that question To take that journey?...
Wholeness
We speak so often of brokenness in religious life, Let us speak today of wholeness....
Thresholds
Thresholds. We cross them every day. From room to room, from outside to inside, and back again, from here to there, from anywhere to everywhere, from age to age. Each threshold offers an opportunity for change, for renewal, for transformation, from what we were and what we are to what we can be....
It Will Be Enough
In ancient times, they said Dayenu It would have been enough to have been spared after the plagues. It would have been enough to have been freed of slavery, It would have been enough to have had food in the desert, Now we question, when will it be enough again? Dayenu Will it be enough to stay home?
Multiple Intelligences Welcome
The diversity of the human species is astounding. The fact that we can gather together for common experience is nothing short of a miracle. Today, let us celebrate some of those differences....
Call to Worship and Action
It is said that ministers are here to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. I say, we are all afflicted, and we are all comfortable. May our time together this morning be a comfort and a confrontation. May we here find peace in times of tumult; May we here invite tumult into lives of...
Praise the World in all its Pain and Blessing
We are called today, from the midst of pain and challenge, we are called to praise the world. From a world that appears broken, we are called to praise life’s moments of joy and grace. From time that seems to freeze in ongoing exchanges of platitudes and blame, we are called to reach out to those...
Call To Gather Days Of Awe
We are held by the great Book of Life, in which it is written that we will inevitably face deprivation and discomfort. Each among us must contemplate our own place in it all.
You Are Never Alone
It's okay to be feel weary of resiliency and wholeness and learning and growth.
Witnesses World
It is now, when we are called to act on our values, not to hide, not to fear, but to be bold and loud.
Watershed
Watershed moments are turning points, moments that permanently alter an understanding.
Our Lives Intersect and Intertwine
Let us marvel at the miracle of being here, right now.
