Gathering Music - 

Welcome and Announcements – Board Member

Greet Your Neighbor – I now invite you to connect with those around you, take a moment and welcome your neighbors with a smile and friendly hello. - Gabby GB

Prelude - Woven Together, by Alex Andrews Johnson

Opening Words: The Soft, Stubborn Practice  Rev. Michelle Collins - Margaret Eagle

Source of Love, Spirit of Interdependence, we give thanks for the web that holds us, the hands that have steadied us, the voices that remind us we are not alone, the presence of those who have leaned on us just as we have leaned on them. Resilience is not a solitary triumph. It is woven through community: shared meals, gentle questions, laughter that breaks through grief, courage borrowed from one another when our own runs thin. In this moment, let us remember that we are stronger together than apart. May we continue to offer and receive care, trusting that our connections sustain us even when we cannot behold the whole picture. Blessed be the bonds that hold and that keep holding.

Chalice Lighting  

Life is a gift, for which we are grateful.

We gather in community to celebrate

The glories and the mysteries of this great gift.

Gathering Hymn — #121 We’ll Build A Land

Story -     The Bamboo and the Storm – A Zen Buddhist Tale – Read by Leslie T   

Anthem - Boulder to Birmingham, by Emmylou Harris

Reflection and Practice - Leslie Talmadge and Ariel Savitz

Words of Offering - Louis D. Brown Peace Institute

Offertory - Take a Moment, by Will Reagan, adapted by Alex Andrews Johnson

Doxology 

From all that dwell below the skies;

Let words of love and peace arise;

Let joyful songs of praise be sung;

Through every land by every tongue. Amen.

Candles of Celebration and Concern

Prayer - Rev Martha

Hymn - #100 I’ve Got Peace Like a River

Reading-- Words from Pema Chödrön - Gabby GB

Closing Song - #168 One More Step

Extinguishing the Flame  -  Rhythms of Renewal- Rev Michelle Collins - Leslie Talmadge

The circle widens, the season turns. We have paused in this hour to remember that the world remakes itself by rhythm, not by force. As you leave this place, let yourself join that rhythm, giving and receiving, resting and moving, one small life in a great turning of renewal.

Postlude - Little Gifts, by Alex Andrews Johnson

Flower Dedication