Endings and New Beginnings. We’re getting very good at this. What can we learn from each other as experts of our own lives and outside experts about transitions and change so that they can be embraced? What is our “tool kit” as we move into this exciting time in our life as a spiritual community – an ending and a new beginning.
- Prelude
- Ring Tibetan Bowl
- Centering Music
- Introduction of Rev. Eric Meter
- Opening Hymn: #354, We Laugh, We Cry (slide)
- Welcome
- Chalice Lighting
- Call to Worship
- Wisdom Tale – What Do You Do With a Chance by Kobi Yamada (Slides)
- Sing the Children to their Classroom (slide)
- Land Acknowledgment: (slide)
- Prayer, Candles of Joys, Sorrows & Gratitude
- Sung Prayer: Rev. Rebecca Parker (Slide)
- Wisdom Reading: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
- Hymn: Turn, Turn, Turn, written by Pete Seeger (video)
- Sermon: Transitions and Change – Déjà Vu All Over Again
- Offertory (slide)
- Shared Singing: Hymn #402, From You I Receive (slide)
- Invitations/Announcements
- Hymn: #1008, When Your Heart is in a Holy Place (slide)
- Benediction
- Extinguishing the Chalice (slide)
- Invitation and Final Wave
- Postlude