Order of Service
Flower Communion: The Wheel of Life
Sunday, June 15, 2025, 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
Nothing is lost; the universe is honest,
Time, like the sea, gives all back in the end,
But only in its own way, on its own conditions:
Empires as grains of sand, forests as coal, Mountains as pebbles.
Be still, be still, I say; You were never the water, only a wave;
Not substance, but a form substance assumed.
—Elder Olson
Gathering Music Ian Pelot, piano
Welcome & Announcements Rev Paul Beckel, Jeff Copeland
Chalice Lighting Su Livingston
Covenant
Singing Together #128, For All that is Our Life
Children’s Focus Our Subway Baby, by Peter Mercurio
Children’s Blessing We hold you in our Love
Interlude Little Heart, by Peter Mayer
New Member Ceremony Ted Williams
On Intersex Awareness Beth Fuller
About the Flower Communion and Mandala
Singing Together
Loosen, loosen maybe
You don’t have to carry
The weight of the world in your muscles and bones
Let go, let go, let go
Creation and Meditation
Sharing our Gifts
Circle ‘Round
Conversation starter for those on Zoom:
“My flower represents…. How about yours?”
Afterward
If you’re with us on Zoom today, please stay after the service for our online coffee hour. If you’re here in person, please join us downstairs for coffee and conversation. Visitors: you may wish to use a red cup — then we’ll know you’re open to a bit of orientation.
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