LOVING AND LEARNING
FROM THE NATURAL WORLD
Sunday, September 1, 2024, 10:25 am
Online on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/738363620
Passcode: BUF
Zoom by phone, for audio only: (346) 248-7799
Meeting ID: 738 363 620
Passcode: 306220
You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Gathering Music Improvisational music by Jaco ten Hove and Andrea Rackl
Welcome /Announcements Rev Barbara W. ten Hove, affiliated minister
Singing Together #395, Sing and Rejoice
Opening Words Carrie Koehnline
Singing Together #203, All Creatures of our Earth and Sky
Chalice Lighting & Covenant Steffany Raynes
Singing the Children Out From You I Receive…
Reading To Learn from Animal Being by John O’Donohue
Message, part 1 Steffany Raynes
Singing Together #194, Faith is a Forest
Message, part 2 Carrie Koehnline
Singing Together #123, Spirit of Life
Offertory Nocturne in C# Minor, by Chopin
Andrea Rackl
Closing words
Extinguish Chalice
Singing Together #155, Circle Round
Afterward
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