<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; 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font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Current FUUSM Standard Sunday Service Format </b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Time of Gathering & Greeting </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">(Open Zoom Room ~10:30-10:55)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Musical Prelude & (Welcome Slide)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">11AM Service begins<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Joys & Sorrows at the end (w/o FB)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Zoom Link</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Topic: August Sunday Services </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> Aug 23, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada) </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Join Zoom Meeting</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(4, 51, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 51, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://zoom.us/j/94822183499?pwd=ZVhkMHZWSnR1bTI5czZWRk1zdFFmQT09" class="">https://zoom.us/j/94822183499?pwd=ZVhkMHZWSnR1bTI5czZWRk1zdFFmQT09<span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Meeting ID: 948 2218 3499<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Passcode: fuusm2323</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Dial in by phone from your location</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">+1 929 205 6099 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Same Meeting ID (as above): 948 2218 3499<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Different Passcode: 772050</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Welcome to the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta (Mid-Ohio Valley). </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Please enjoy a time of gathering and greeting one another via Zoom </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">until the Welcome Slide appears and the Prelude begins, denoting the start of the service. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">We ask that you mute yourselves (or we can help) to establish a reverent space and pause for the beginning of the service.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">At the end of the service there is a brief time to share Joys & Sorrows, </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">and then an additional open time of sharing and socializing.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Please be mindful that the service via Zoom is also streamed Live to FaceBook, </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">and because of this the time of Joys & Sorrows will not be included in public postings.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Covenant<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> #471<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">arranged by L. Griswold Williams</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Love is the doctrine of this church,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The quest of truth is its sacrament, and service is its prayer.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">To dwell together in peace, to seek knowledge in freedom,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">To serve human need, to the end that all souls shall grow into harmony with the Divine-</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Thus do we covenant with each other and with God.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Traditionally, there are four types of prayers – prayer of petition, of praise, </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">of thanks, of forgiveness. When we take this new approach toward prayer, </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">these traditional forms break open and become channels that lead to insight. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Order of Service<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sunday August 23, 2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Our mission is to nurture a diverse community, </i></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><i class="">devoted to spiritual growth and freedom of thought for the benefit of all.</i></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">(10:30) <b class="">Gathering & Greeting<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></b>(11am) <b class="">Welcome Slide </b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Prelude </span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Make Channels for the Streams of Love</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i></b>Randall Kidder, Pianist<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class=""><i class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i></b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">American folk melody, arr. by Annabel M. Buchanan (1889-1983); Words by Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Welcome</span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Martha McGovern, Worship Leader</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Opening Chant </span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><i class="">Listen People Listen<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> </i></b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Rev. Kathryn Hawbaker, Minister</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">Listen, people, listen, <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>listen to the waters</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">calling us like rivers, running to the sea.</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Chalice Lighting </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <b class="">Beginnings of a Poem… </b></span><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">-Mereth DunnEstry (1985)</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Offering </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">– Thank you for your donations and pledge payments.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Reflection: Prayer & Poetry</span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Prayer of Petition <b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></b>Prayer Song <i class="">From You I Receive</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Prayer of Praise</span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Prayer Song </span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><i class="">Earth My Body</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Prayer of Thanksgiving<b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></b>Prayer Song <i class="">Give Thanks</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Prayer of Forgiveness<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Prayer Song <i class="">We Begin Again in Love<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Prayer of Loving Gaze<i class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Poem<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><i class="">The Summer Day<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i></b></span><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">-Mary Oliver</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Poem</span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class=""><i class="">What I Know</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""> </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">-The old man at Underbrow Cottage (Ron Tepley)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>in response to Mary Oliver’s poem <i class="">In Blackwater Woods</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Benediction <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Sanctuaries of Silence</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i></b></span><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">-Gordon Hempton</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">When I listen, I have to be quiet. I become very peaceful </i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and I think what I enjoy most about listening is that I disappear, I disappear.</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class=""></i></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Invitation to Share Joys & Sorrows</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">*Following the video and Joys & Sorrows, the Zoom room will remain open for a time of socializing.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Great Gratitude to those who contributed to this service and provided technical support:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Martha McGovern, Ralph Olander, Randall Kidder, & Mike Bailey.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 19px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class=""></i></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">Drink from the well of your self and begin again </i></span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><i class=""> </i></span><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">~Charles Bukowski</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">Let the beauty we love be what we do. </i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">There are hundreds of ways to go home again. </i></span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">― Rumi</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(24, 24, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">*******************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">View photos of flags in the courtyard on Instagram via Jane Tumas-Serna</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 135, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 135, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CENU4RsBWSc/?igshid=1oux1xxj7i115" class="">https://www.instagram.com/p/CENU4RsBWSc/?igshid=1oux1xxj7i115<span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">You are invited to create prayer flags to hang in the courtyard.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Materials are available there. The winds carry the prayers out into the world.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">JOY</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Crystal Barnett Sheaves & Justin Sheaves have a special joy in announcing their intention to adopt and bring into their family another child -a sibling to Axelton. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Please visit their FaceBook page if you haven’t already supported them. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 30px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class="">ANNOUNCEMENTS</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Mondays - </b>Black Lives Matter (12-3pm) The vigil gathers at the fountain next</span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">to the Lafayette Hotel.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Sunday Mornings (9:30am)</b> in the Parlor</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The <b class="">Today’s Issues </b>group meets Sunday mornings (9:30am) in the Office/RE building next to the church following social distancing guidelines. Each Sunday the group will discuss essays from the NY Review of Books.</span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> </span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Mon. Aug. 24 </b>Personnel Committee (5:30pm) Hybrid- Parlor & Zoom</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Mon. Aug. 24</b> (6:30-8pm) Cakes for the Queen of Heaven (Zoom)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(69, 135, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 135, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://zoom.us/j/95134658909?pwd=ZFdIUGZhQkorWkdLNklLNVBXbFROdz09" class="">https://zoom.us/j/95134658909?pwd=ZFdIUGZhQkorWkdLNklLNVBXbFROdz09<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Meeting ID: 951 3465 8909 Passcode: Cakes</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Dial by phone from your location +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Same Meeting ID: 951 3465 8909 Different (Numerical) Passcode: 736019</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Wed. Aug. 26</b> <b class="">Midweek Midday Meditation </b>(12-1pm)<b class=""> (</b>Zoom & Parlor) </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(4, 51, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 51, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://zoom.us/j/98570571823?pwd=VklkWWUrSjZCclJ2dElZS3ZVVHFhdz09" class="">https://zoom.us/j/98570571823?pwd=VklkWWUrSjZCclJ2dElZS3ZVVHFhdz09<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Meeting ID: 985 7057 1823<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Passcode: OMWed12</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Dial in by your location +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Same Meeting ID: 985 7057 1823<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Different Passcode: 528033</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Sat. Aug. 29 </b>MOVCA Shoe Strike (9am-2pm) Williamstown, WV</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The Shoe Strike is to remind people that the Climate Crises has not been a victim of the pandemic. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">It is growing stronger every day! The shoes stand in the places where all the past, current and future victims of Climate Chaos cannot stand for themselves. This is a way for you to participate in the most extreme form of socially responsible protest we can think of. And a way to get rid of your old shoes.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Drop shoes in or near the container on the wall next to the rear basement door of the church office/parlor building starting now and lasting through the last week of September. There are bags in the container. Our plan, after all of our shoes are finished marching, is to give them all to the current Cobbler John, who is collecting shoes to repair if needed and send them all to needy areas of the world.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Next </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Sunday Aug. 30 </b>Live Presentation with Felix Burrows <b class=""><i class="">Speak for Yourself</i></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">for a limited number of congregants (15) in the Sanctuary.<b class=""> </b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">For more information, contact Rev. Hawbaker.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">All </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Services will continue to be available on Zoom & Facebook.</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 19px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class="">Looking Ahead </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Sun. Sept. 20 </b><i class="">Water Ceremony</i><b class=""> ~ </b>In Courtyard (9:30am) & on Zoom (11am).</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Sun. Sept. 27 </b>(11am) <i class="">Fall Congregational Meeting</i><b class=""> - Your input and vote is important.</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">To address future plans and the proposed budget.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 19px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">The FUUSM Office</b> is not open to the general public, but we are checking messages and making plans. Please check the FUUSM website, and use email or phone to contact Chris Keller in the Office <a href="mailto:fuusm@suddenlinkmail.com" class=""><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(69, 135, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(69, 135, 255);" class="">fuusm@suddenlinkmail.com</span></a> </span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">(740) 373-1238, or Rev. Kathryn Hawbaker. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Check the Weekly Update through the FUUSM-L email list for news of hybrid meetings (Zoom & in-person) and other events on the calendar.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class="">SERVICE NOTES & POEMS</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Hymn #299</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><i class=""> Make Channels for the Streams of Love</i></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">1) Make channels for the streams of love where they may broadly run; </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and love has over-flowing streams to fill them every one. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">2) But if at any time we cease such channels to provide, </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>the very founts of love for us will soon be parched and dry.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">3) For we must share, if we would keep this gift all else above; </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>we cease to give, we cease to have- such is the law of love.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Beginnings of a Poem… </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">-Mereth DunnEstry (1985)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">(</b>*)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">I cup a word in my </i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">hands,</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">nuzzle it,</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">inhale its sounds,</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">taste its variations,</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">tease it into attention.</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">A poem by Li-Young Lee suggests the opening to awe and the embrace of spirit:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><i class="">From Blossoms</i></b></span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">From blossoms comes</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">this brown paper bag of peaches</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">we bought from the boy</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">at the bend in the road where we turned toward</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">signs painted <i class="">Peaches</i>.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">From laden boughs, from hands,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">from sweet fellowship in the bins,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">comes nectar at the roadside, succulent</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">O, to take what we love inside,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">to carry within us an orchard, to eat</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">not only the skin, but the shade,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">not only the sugar, but the days, to hold</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">the round jubilance of peach.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">There are days we live</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">as if death were nowhere</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">in the background; from joy</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">to joy to joy, from wing to wing,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">from blossom to blossom to</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><i class="">The Summer Day </i></b></span><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> -Mary Oliver</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Who made the world?</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Who made the swan, and the black bear?</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Who made the grasshopper?</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">This grasshopper, I mean –</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">the one who has flung herself out of the grass,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down –</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">which is what I have been doing all day. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Tell me, what else should I have done?</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Tell me, what is it you plan to do</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">With your one wild and precious life?</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 27px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 27px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 27px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 27px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 27px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 27px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 27px;" class=""><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;" class=""><i class="">What I Know</i> </b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;" class="">-Ron Tepley</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 27px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;" class="">-The old man at Underbrow Cottage</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 27px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;" class="">in response to Mary Oliver’s poem</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: 14px;" class="">In Blackwater Woods</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 27px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">What I know is</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 27px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">that the past is the past</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Luminari; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 27px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">And the present is what</span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">my life is</span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">and we my friends</span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">are capable of choosing</span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">what that will be.</span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">We must give our voices</span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: 18px;" class="">to the World</span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">And live our lives</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">with love</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">with happiness</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">with tolerance</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">or</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">become an ugle image </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">of hate and injustice.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 23px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 23px;" class=""><br class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 23px;" class=""><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16);" class=""><i class="">In Blackwater Woods</i></b><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 23px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">Look, the trees</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 23px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">are turning</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 23px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">their own bodies</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 23px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">into pillars</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 23px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">of light,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 23px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">are giving off the rich</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 23px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">fragrance of cinnamon</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 23px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">and fulfillment,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 23px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">the long tapers</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 23px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(16, 16, 16); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">of cattails</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">are bursting and floating away over</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">the blue shoulders</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">of the ponds,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">and every pond,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">no matter what its</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">name is, is</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">nameless now.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Every year</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">everything</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">I have ever learned</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">in my lifetime</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">leads back to this: the fires</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">and the black river of loss</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">whose other side</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">is salvation,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">whose meaning</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">none of us will ever know.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">To live in this world</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">you must be able</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">to do three things:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">to love what is mortal;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">to hold it</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">against your bones knowing</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">your own life depends on it;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">and, when the time comes to let it go,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">to let it go.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“In Blackwater Woods” by Mary Oliver, </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Primitive-Mary-Oliver/dp/0316650048" class=""><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(202, 31, 23); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(202, 31, 23);" class=""><i class="">American Primitive</i></span></a>. © Back Bay Books, 1983.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>