Books that have Impacted our Lives
Sunday, December 15, 2024, 10:25 am
Online on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/738363620
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
– James Baldwin
Gathering Music Karen FitzGerald
Welcome Rev Paul Beckel
Prelude
Chalice Lighting A Person will Worship Something,
by Ralph Waldo Emerson, #563
Covenant
Singing Together #354, We Laugh We Cry
Children’s Focus Hunting the White Cow
by Tres Seymour, pictures by Wendy Anderson Halperin
Children’s Blessing We Hold You in Our Love
Announcements
Reflections Steffany Raynes, Lin Skavdahl
Singing Together #23, Bring Many Names
Reflections Jim Reimer, Claire Lending
Social and Environmental Justice Collection
Leta Sanchez & Sapna, for IRIS
Sharing Our Gifts Lullaby, written by Karen FitzGerald
Reflections Beth Nyblade, Gayle Tillis
Singing Together Praise the Source of Faith and Learning
Benediction
Circle Round
Afterward
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