[Fuusm-l] Order of Service for April 11, 2021 Resilient Religious Communities

[Kat Hawbaker]

*2021 Sunday Worship Services Zoom Link  *

https://zoom.us/j/94822183499?pwd=ZVhkMHZWSnR1bTI5czZWRk1zdFFmQT09

Meeting ID: 948 2218 3499 Passcode: fuusm2323

Dial in by phone from your area location: 1-929 205 6099 (NY)        1-301
715 8592 (Germantown)

Same Meeting ID (as above): 948 2218 3499 Different Passcode: 772050



*Sunday April 11, 2021  Resilient Religious Communities*

*Resiliency united with strength and flexibility creates beauty in the
world, and creates new spaces for life to flourish.   *

-Tim Atkins (he/him/his) serves as the Director of Lifespan Religious
Exploration

for the First Unitarian Church in Oklahoma City, OK.



*ORDER of SERVICE*

10:30am  Gathering Time

*Prelude*  *With Strength and Fire  Op. #3 * Randall Kidder, Pianist

Felix Mendlesohn, composer (1809-1847)

*Welcome * Rev. Kathryn Hawbaker

*Acknowledging Native Lands *

*Story **The Water Protectors  - *Carole Lindstrom, author  Michaela Goade,
illustrator


*Chalice Lighting*

*Blessing* *Hymn *(adapted)*   May Nothing Evil Cross This Door*

#1  Singing the Living Tradition Words by Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977),  Music
by RobertN. Quaile, b. 1867

May nothing evil cross this door, and though these sheltering walls are
thin,

may they be strong to keep hate out and hold love in.



*Story     After the Fall **(How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again)  -*Dan
Santat, author

*Bird Song *Be like a bird who pausing in its flight on a branch too slight

as it gives way beneath her -she sings, sings knowing she has wings.


*Meditation* *Humming*


*Responsive Reading       It Matters What We Believe  **Minister *& *All*

#657  Singing the Living Tradition*     - *Sophia Lyon Fahs  (1876-1978)

*Some beliefs are like walled gardens.  *

*They encourage exclusiveness, and the feeling of being expecially
privileged.*

*Other beliefs are expansive *

*and lead the way into wider and deeper sympathies. *

*Some beliefs are like shadows, clouding children’s days with fears of
unknown calamities.*

*Other beliefs are like sunshine, *

*blessing children with the warmth of happiness.*

*Some beliefs are divisive, separating the saved from the unsaved, friends
from enemies.*

*Other beliefs are bonds in a world community,*

*where sincere differences beautify the pattern.*

*Some beliefs are like blinders, shutting off the power to choose one’s own
direction.*

*Other beliefs are are like gateways opening wide vistas for exploration.*

*Some beliefs weaken a person’s selfhood.  They blight the growth of
resourcefulness.*

*Other beliefs nurture self-confidence and enrich the feeling of personal
worth.*

*Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing
world.*

*Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing*

*with the upward thrust of life.*



*Offertory **Chant of the Elements*

*Earth my body, water my blood, air my breath and fire my spirit.*


*Reflection * *Resilient Religious Communities* -Rev. K. Hawbaker



*Story*- *White Nights of Ramadan*  -Maha Addasi


*Benediction* *Peace, Salaam, Shalom* -emma’s revolution

Artwork by Josie Jeffery

*Postlude ** Feeling Good - *Nina Simone

  Interpreted by em Libras - Anne Magalhaes


*Joys & Sorrows*

*Announcements *

*Social Time*

Great appreciation to those who contributed to our service.

Please consider how you may be able to help and share in the service.
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