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Guest Preacher:
Rev. Dr. Chris S. Davies Team Leader Faith Education, Innovation, and Formation United Church of Christ Where are you? I called and hurried out over the silky sea of the night, across the good garden of branches, leaves, water, down into the garden of fire. This skin you wear so neatly, in which you settle so brightly on the summer grass, how shall I know it? from “The Gardens,” by Mary Oliver Scripture Reading: Matthew 17: 1-9 Contemporary Testimony “One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.” – Ella Baker
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History is not the past, it is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.”
– James Baldwin Scripture Reading: Matthew 5: 21-26 Contemporary Reading: The Winter Is Cold, Is Cold by Madeleine L’Engle Guest Preacher: Michael R. Curry
Lay Minister for Disability Education, Advocacy, and Awareness Southwest Conference United Church of Christ “What barriers stand in the way and prevent those who are differently-abled from being more than just a body in the pew on Sunday mornings?” - Michael R. Curry, Lay Minister for Disability Education, Advocacy, and Awareness Southwest Conference, UCC Scripture Reading: Luke 5: 17-26 HELPED are those who receive only to give; always in their house will be the circular energy of generosity; and in their hearts a beginning of new age on Earth: when no keys will be needed to unlock the heart and no locks will be needed on the doors.
HELPED are those who love the stranger; in this they reflect the heart of the Creator and that of the Mother. HELPED are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant. HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity. HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be full as it is long. HELPED are those who love others unsplit off from their faults; to them will be given clarity of vision. HELPED are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception, and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. -- Selections from “The Gospel According to Shug,” by Alice Walker, in her book The Temple of My Familiar Scripture Readings: Micah 6: 1-4, 6-8 Matthew 5: 1-12 |
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