Welcome to Worship

February 13, 2022
Between Me and You

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“Loneliness is the ill-being of our time. We feel very lonely, even if we are surrounded by many people. We are lonely together.”
-Thich Nhat Hanh

WELCOME – Rev. Andy Bachmann

PRELUDE- “Either Way” by Wilco. Offered by Adam Hill, with Alan Hill, bass. 

Maybe the sun will shine today, and clouds will blow away. Maybe I won’t feel so afraid. I will try to understand, either way.

Do you ever feel like life is just rushing past you?
Do you ever worry about the world?
What would you say if I told you I get sad sometimes?
Do you ever get lonely?

SONG- “Down With the Shine” by the Avett Brothers. Offered by Andy Bachmann, Alan Hill, Mark Burlingame, and Brian Stevens.

Join us on the chorus: 
Down with the shine, the perfect shine-
That poisons the well and ruins my mind,
I get took for a ride every time
Down with the glistening shine!

INVOCATION- Rev. Talia Raymond

darling one—
you precious mess—
you exhausted, grieving, hollowed, hallowed, hallelujah of a human—
today, if even for a moment, may you feel:
your own beating heart
your own courageous coeur
your chest rising and falling with breath
which is spirit
which is lifeforce
keeping pulse
marking time
finding space—
regardless of how you are feeling
no matter what you are capable of
or not—
and, for just for a moment
may you find rest
a bit of ease, held
in that sacred rhythm
that cannot be
without you
because you, you precious mess,
have breath and heart and lifeforce
pulsing through you, yet.    – Rev. Anna Blaedel, enfleshed

SUNG RESPONSE – “Confitemini Domino”

Con-fi-te-mi-ni Domino
quo-ni-am bonus
Con-fi-te-mi-ni Domino
Al-le-lu-ia

TIME WITH THE CHILDREN- Andy Bachmann
BIRTHDAYS

INTERLUDE & OFFERTORY – “How to Fight Loneliness,” by Wilco. Offered by John and Christine Denny. Film by Tristan Frower.

SCRIPTURE – Mark 1:32-39  

“That evening, after sunset, they brought to him all who were sick and those who were possessed by devils. The whole town came crowding round, and he cured many who were suffering from diseases of one kind or another…In the morning, long before dawn, he got up and left the house and went off to a lonely place and prayed there…”

SERMON – “How to Fight Loneliness” – Rev. Andy Bachmann

READING – “The Bell and the Blackbird,” by David Whyte

The sound of a bell
Still reverberating,
Or a blackbird calling
From the corner of the field
Asking you to WAKE into this life
Or inviting you deeper to one that waits.

Either way takes courage,
Either way wants you to be nothing
But that self that is no self at all,
Wants you to walk to the place
Where you find
You already know how to give
Every last thing away.
The approach that is also the meeting itself, without any meeting at all.
That radiance you have always carried with you
As you walk, both alone
And completely accompanied in friendship
By every corner of the world crying
Allelujah.

SUNG RESPONSE- “All this Joy, All this Sorrow”

All this joy, all this sorrow,
All this promise, all this pain,
Such is life, such is being,
Such is spirit, such is love.

Sing of joy, sing of sorrow,
Sing of promise, sing of pain,
Such is life, such is being,
Such is spirit, such is love.

World of joy, world of sorrow,
World of promise, world of pain,
Such is life, such is being,
Such is spirit, such is love.

All is joy, all is sorrow,
All is promise, all is pain,
Such is life, such is being
Such is spirit, such is love.

BENEDICTION

ALLELUIA

Special thanks to Mark Burlingame for piano accompaniment, to Dominic Durante, Tim Martin, Mike Myers, Andrew Ragsdale, and Taylor Stein for our new worship installation, and to the Lively Arts Committee for our Sanctuary decoration.