To Claim a Life of Joy and Justice
Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains
February 11, 2024
Rev. Kevin Tarsa with Gail Johnson Vaughan, Worship Associate
**Due to technical difficulties, only a portion of the service was recorded this week. Our apologies.
Lest we imagine that claiming joy, investing in equity, and fortifying justice are someone else’s journeys, we’ll pick up and follow some of the threads woven through last Sunday’s service, maybe even leading to the center of our own hearts. Come, consider ways to nurture our own particular blends of presence, peace, and resilience, as we bring our unique voices to the choir that longs for a world more compassionate, sustainable, and just.
Song for Gathering Oh, I Woke Up This Morning #153 African American spiritual
with Introduction by the UUCM Choir
Opening Words And Yet You Persist by Rev Gretchen Haley
read by Gail Johnson Vaughan, Worship Associate, and Rev. Kevin Tarsa
Greeting Each Other
Land Acknowledgement read by Gail Johnson Vaughan
Lighting of the Chalice In the Name of All That Leans Down and Helps us Up by Rev. Scott Tayler
read by Karl Snyder
Singing the Children on Their Way
Welcome Gail Johnson Vaughan, Worship Associate
Song Meditation on Breathing #1009 by Sarah Dan Jones
Joys & Sorrows
Blessing for Resilience by Nico Van Ostrand [VIDEO]
Meditation
Sermon To Claim a Life of Joy and Justice Rev. Kevin Tarsa
Offering Gail Johnson Vaughan
Offertory
Dedication Gail Johnson Vaughan
Thank you & Announcements
Closing Song I am Willing by Holly Near
with the UUCM Choir, Kathryn Young, Michael Bankston, Susan Merrill, soloists
Closing Words Let Our Lives Be a Prayer by Joel Miller
Community Benediction / Extinguishing of the Chalice
Carry the flame of peace and love until we meet again.
Music for Going Forth