Holy spirit embracing all in ever-constant affection,
We gather together this Sunday a jumble of highs and lows, anxieties and anticipations, troubles too great to bear alone, joys too great to bear alone.
Our hearts turn with random enthusiasms, and ceaseless worries. Our minds scamper with fleeting images, or cling too tightly to weighty obsessions. Some spirits leap up this morning at this day of new beginnings. Some spirits sink down this morning at this day of final endings.
We come thankful for this congregation with room to contain all of our lives: a person filled with doubt and fear, sits beside a person filled with optimism and strength. The hungry man next to the well-fed woman. The healthy beside the sick. The troubled beside the peaceful. The pressed down, beside the lifted up.
Forgive us the times when we let our differences force us apart instead of drawing us closer. Awaken in us a sense of curiosity about lives different from our own. Help us to see your divine face in every face and in all our faces together.
Today we set our solitary lives into the context of this community larger than ourselves and into this faith tradition older than ourselves. Within the great symphony of existence we add our melody.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
prayer for the spring
Gods and goddesses of the spring: Persephone, Eostre, Gaia, the Green Man, Mithra, Pan,
We revel in this your glorious season, when every bursting blossom testifies to the power of life, when every sprouting seed preaches new creation, when the lengthening days promise greater joy to come. Our hearts leap up in hope and anticipation of the quickly approaching day of yearly resurrection when all that seems dead and finished is found alive again.
Like any seed buried in the ground we know it will come up.
New healing for the sick and injured
It will come up (repeat after each line)
New community for the isolated and lonely
Comfort for the troubled
Solace for the grieving
New work for the unemployed
New homes for the homeless
A congregation of 150 Unitarian Universalists in the Santa Clarita Valley
A community garden
Marriage equality in the state of California
Marriage equality in the United States
Universal Health Care
Equitable distribution of our water resources
A sustainable economy based on conservation rather than consumption
Hastened development of renewable energy sources
Peace in Afghanistan
Peace in Iraq
Peace in all the world
Peace in our own hearts
We revel in this your glorious season, when every bursting blossom testifies to the power of life, when every sprouting seed preaches new creation, when the lengthening days promise greater joy to come. Our hearts leap up in hope and anticipation of the quickly approaching day of yearly resurrection when all that seems dead and finished is found alive again.
Like any seed buried in the ground we know it will come up.
New healing for the sick and injured
It will come up (repeat after each line)
New community for the isolated and lonely
Comfort for the troubled
Solace for the grieving
New work for the unemployed
New homes for the homeless
A congregation of 150 Unitarian Universalists in the Santa Clarita Valley
A community garden
Marriage equality in the state of California
Marriage equality in the United States
Universal Health Care
Equitable distribution of our water resources
A sustainable economy based on conservation rather than consumption
Hastened development of renewable energy sources
Peace in Afghanistan
Peace in Iraq
Peace in all the world
Peace in our own hearts
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