[Worship] A prayer in this email is particularly moving, IMO

[First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta]

We need to save and use the prayer at the bottom of this email—an excerpt from this book. I found it powerfully moving and deeply religious (my kind of religion, that is). 

Dawn Hewitt
Office assistant
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta, Ohio

From: Black Lives UU 
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 9:03 AM
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Subject: Thank You for Amplifying Black Voices

An Excerpt from BLUU Notes to Say Thanks

                                  
                                 BLUU Notes: An Anthology of Love, Justice, and Liberation


                                BLUU Notes is our first book! Your support of BLUU makes this work possible.



                                We're happy to share an excerpt from BLUU Notes as a thank you to our community.
                                 
                                 
                             
                       
                         Dear Beloved:



                              We are grateful to be a voice for radically inclusive, unapologetically Black theology. 



                              In our first book, “BLUU Notes: An Anthology of Love, Justice, and Liberation,” we share a collection of poems, prayers, prose, and songs that reflect who we are as Black Unitarian Universalists. 



                              We have so much more to say and share with the world. We’re working on another book as you read this email!



                              When you support Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism, you make art like BLUU Notes possible, and you help more of our voices as Black Unitarian Universalists get heard. 
                             
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                         Please enjoy this excerpt from “BLUU Notes” as a thank you for all of your support. 



                              Invocation

                              By Everett Hoagland



                              Architect of icebergs, rainbows.

                              Jeweler of crystals, sand grains, snowflakes, atoms.



                              Mason whose tools are glaciers, rain, rivers, ocean.



                              Chemist who made blood 

                              Of seawater, bone of minerals in stone, milk



                              Of love. Whatever



                              you are, I know this:

                              Spinner, you are everywhere, in all the ever-

                              changing above, whirling around us.



                              Yes, in the loose strands, 

                              In the rough weave of the common



                              cloth threaded with our DNA on the hubbed, spoked

                              spinning wheel that is this world, solar system, galaxy,



                              universe.



                              Help us to see ourselves in all creation,

                              and all creation in ourselves, Ourselves in One Another.



                              Remind those of us who like connections

                              made with similes, metaphors, symbols,

                              that all of us are, everything is,

                              already connected.



                              Remind us that as the oceans go, so go we.

                              As the air goes, so go we.

                              As other life forms on Earth go, so go we.



                              As our planet goes, so go we. Mysterious Muse

                              who inspired “In the beginning was the word…,”



                              edit our thoughts so our ethics are our politics, 

                              and our actions the afterlives of our words.





                              “BLUU Notes: An Anthology of Love, Justice, and Liberation” is our first publication with Skinner House Books. You can purchase the full anthology here.


                             
                          
                 
           
     
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