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

Tue Jan 31 17:57:10 CST 2023

Amen :}

On 1/31/2023 10:09 AM, First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta 
via Worship wrote:
> 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
> *To:* fuusm at suddenlinkmail.com
> *Subject:* Thank You for Amplifying Black Voices
> An Excerpt from BLUU Notes to Say Thanks
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>       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, “ 
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> Notes: An Anthology of Love, Justice, and Liberation 
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> 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!
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> When you support Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism, you make art 
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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
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> Of seawater, bone of minerals in stone, milk
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> Of love. Whatever
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> you are, I know this:
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> Spinner, you are everywhere, in all the ever-
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> changing above, whirling around us.
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> Yes, in the loose strands,
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> In the rough weave of the common
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> cloth threaded with our DNA on the hubbed, spoked
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> spinning wheel that is this world, solar system, galaxy,
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> universe.
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> 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.
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> As other life forms on Earth go, so go we.
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> As our planet goes, so go we. Mysterious Muse
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> who inspired “In the beginning was the word…,”
>
> edit our thoughts so our ethics are our politics,
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> and our actions the afterlives of our words.
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> “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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