The First Stone
Sunday, September 29, 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
The Place Where We Are Right
From the place where we are right
Flowers will never grow
In the spring.
The place where we are right
Is hard and trampled
Like a yard.
But doubts and loves
Dig up the world
Like a mole, a plow.
And a whisper will be heard in the place
Where the ruined
House once stood.
— Yehuda Amichai
Gathering Music Andrea Rackl, piano
Welcome Rev Paul Beckel
Prelude
Chalice Lighting & Covenant Carrie Koehnline
Gathering Song #1009, Meditation on Breathing
Children’s Focus Jamaica’s Blue Marker, by Juanita Havill
read by Lee Willis
Children’s Blessing We Hold You In Our Love…
Announcements
Reflections, Part 1
Interlude
Reflections, Part 2
Offertory
Singing Together #108, My Life Flows On In Endless Song
Benediction
Extinguish Chalice
Singing Together #155, Circle Round
Afterward
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