Creating Pathways: Letting Go
May 11, 2025

Rev. Rosemary Morrison


Service Leader: Brandie-Moller Reid

Order of Service

Chimes

Welcome and Announcements

Land Acknowledgement

Prelude

Chalice Lighting
Mother's Day Chalice Lighting by Claudene (Deane) Oliva
We light this chalice for mothers and mothering;
to celebrate those who have taken on the task of nurturing a young one-baby, child, or youth-into adulthood;
to celebrate those who have nourished the light of truth and compassion in growing minds and hearts;
to celebrate those who have committed time, money, energy to the growth of others in this world.
We light this chalice to celebrate and hold dear this flame of love.
By Claudene (Deane) Oliva
Hymn 188 Come, Come Whoever You Are

Sharing Our Abundance
Hymn 402 From You I Receive (Sing 2X)

Candles of Joy and Concern
Pastoral Response
Hymn 301 Touch the Earth, Reach the Sky

Service Leader Reflection

Responsive Reading Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.

__You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.


__Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

__Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.

__Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

Video Martyn Joseph Folding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZNYWxbpvTQ

Reading

Meditation

Message

Hymn 1020 Woyaya

Extinguishing the Flame
Let us sing the magic of Imagination by Susan L. Van Dreser
Let us sing the magic of imagination by which we know one another and learn the lives of eras gone by.
Let us sing the magic of creation by which we build the world of our soul and teach its wisdom to others, young and old.
Let us sing the magic of our lives together, holding and shaping by the movement of breath from heart to lung all new life that is to come.
Go now with singing. Go now with magic in your fingertips. Touch this world with life.

Benediction

Carry the Flame

Postlude