Greeting

Hymn #398                                   “To See the World”                              Blake/Norway

Welcome

Covenant                                  Love is the spirit of this church,

and reason is its guide.

To dwell together in peace,

to seek truth in freedom,

and to serve human need:

this is our covenant.

Response                               May love shine forth through us today

May light of reason guide our way

May beauty, truth, and joy become

A flame that burns in everyone.

Call to Worship       

Invocation                                                                                   R.W. Emerson (adapted)

Musical Response                      “Be Ours a Religion”

  Parker/Benjamin, arr. Anderson

Story for All Ages  

“Because Nothing Looks Like God” by Lawrence Kushner

Children’s Recessional          “This Little Light of Mine” (#118)

African American spiritual

We will exit through the back doors of the sanctuary to go downstairs. Parents are welcome to escort their children downstairs and attend Religious Education with them, as they wish. Children of all ages are welcome to stay in the service.

Offertory                                      “Meditation No. 21”                                         Kramer

Meditation                                                                                          

Testimony                                                                                                           Dave Black        

Hymn #23                                    “Bring Many Names”                               Wren/Young

Readings              

Musings from “The Oversoul” (adapted) and “Nature” (paraphrase), by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“April Morning Worship,” by Anita Farber-Robertson

Special Music                               “The Eternal One”       Emerson (adapt.)/Alexander

Message          The Impossible God: Unitarian Universalist Theologies

Rev. Bret Lortie

Hymn #343                               “A Firemist and a Planet”                        Wendell Berry

Benediction                                                                             

Closing Blessing                                                                                                                 Scott

“Go your way in peace,

Wander as you may;

Blessed is the path you take;

May love guide you on your way.”

Mattsen Heller, soloist