When Turkeys Fly:
Doing the Impossible with Gratitude
October 12, 2025

Reverend Rosemary Morrison
Service Leader: Yvonne Mireau

Order of Service


Chimes

Welcome and Announcements

Land Acknowledgement

Prelude

Chalice Lighting
Come into this circle of community. Come into this sacred space. By Andrew Pakula
Come into this circle of community. Come into this sacred space.
Be not tentative. Bring your whole self!
Bring the joy that makes your heart sing.
Bring your kindness and your compassion.
Bring also your sorrow, your pain.
Bring your brokenness and your disappointments.
Spirit of love and mystery; help us to recognize the spark of the divine that resides within each of us.
May we know the joy of wholeness.
May we know the joy of being together.
Hymn 349 We Gather Together by Dorothy C. Senghas

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

Hymn 346 Come, Sing a Song with Me by Carolyn McDade

Meditation
Candles of Joy and Concern
Video Grateful – Empty Hands Music – not recorded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO2o98Zpzg8

Gratitude Activity
Greet your neighbours while bringing up your non-perishable items
Reading

Message

Hymn 131 Love Will Guide Us by Sally Rogers

Extinguishing the Flame
When the world numbs… by Rev. Cameron Trimble

Spirit of Breath,
When the world numbs, soften us.
Melt the armor we’ve built around our own tenderness.
Guard us not with distance, but with discernment.
Help us feel deeply without drowning.
Let us carry pain without being consumed by it.
Let us keep loving without illusion.
May our hearts of flesh remain
responsive, vulnerable, and true

Benediction

Carry the Flame

Postlude