We will celebrate National Poetry Month with the sacred texts Unitarian Universalists turn to again and again–poetry.

 

• Tell the Truth, but Tell it Slant
• Ring the Bell
• Prelude
• Ring Tibetan Bowl: Elizabeth
• Centering Music Hymn: #346, Come Sing a Song with Me
• Welcome
• Chalice Lighting
• Wisdom Tale, Adapted from “The Peddler of Swaffham” from Tales of Wisdom and Wonder retold by Hugh Lupton
• Sing the Children to their Classroom
• Poetry, Wellness Check by Andrea Gibson
• Hymn: #299, Make Channels for the Streams of Love
• Poetry: “How Prayer Works”
• Land Acknowledgment
• Poetry: “Don’t Tell Anyone”
• Joys and Sorrows
• Sung Prayer: Rev. Rebecca Parker: Linli
• Poetry: “For When People Ask” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.
• Hymn: # 153 Oh, I Woke Up This Morning
• Poetry: “How I Discovered Poetry” By Marilyn Nelson
• Offertory
• Hymn #402, From You I Receive
• Poetry: “From Metropolitan Diary 3/2/09″ From Metropolitan Diary by Mel Glenn
• Invitations
• Poetry: The Swan by Mary Oliver
• Hymn: #123 Spirit of Life
• Poetry: “A Blessing” by James Wright
• Extinguishing the Chalice
• Invitation and Final Wave
• Postlude