It was so great to see so many folks on Sunday. We loved the Story for All Ages ‘Old Turtle and the Broken Truth’ as embodied by so many wonderful humans in the congregation. It was moving to witness our UUSS children and youth as they chose a flower pot during Maria’s beautiful version of John Rutter’s ‘A Flower Remembered’ and cooperated to find eggs in the backyard. The choir did a powerful song ‘No Other People’s Children’ to really bring the message together.
As April begins, and there’s a solar eclipse less than a week away, we honour interdependence and national poetry month with an excerpt from “Part as Parcel” by Mark Belletini, a retired UU minister (one of the first openly gay ministers in UUism), poet, and Chair of the Hymnal Commission that brought us Singing the Living Tradition (hardback) hymnal.
I am part of you, O Truth Unfolding.
I am part of you.
I am part of a cosmos.
I cannot see
either its edge or its end.
How amazing!
I am part of a galaxy of a million, billion stars.
They say it’s a pinwheel.
How wonderful!
I am part of a system of planets that swing
around a small parent star. How strong the hands
of invisible gravity must be
to hold it all together, just so!
I am part of a planet, green and blue,
along with mountains and seas,
sponges and spores,
lichen and lava,
robins and rain,
periwinkles and perch,
centipedes and cities.
How great the variety!
How astonishing the mutual dependence of it all!
We hope to see you at Wonderful Wednesday, the Peter Mayer concert on Saturday, and worship on Sunday so we can continue to celebrate our interdependence together!
With awe, and gratitude~ Rev. Lynn & Rev. Wendy