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Below you will find the bulletin for the service, with links to videos for you to participate. Simply click on the highlighted text in your email and you will be taken to our videos page.

The Season of Lent: Fermentation

The Hero’s Journey: Learning

 

Opening of Worship and Special Music

Things I’ve Learned in the Season of Lent – offered by Rebecca Beachy, Taylor Williams, Joanne LaFramenta

Special Music -“Blue Skies Again,” written and offered by Mark Burlingame. Handpan and Fluglehorn.

Readings, Prayers and Time with the Children

“Prayer for a Pandemic,” by Cameron Bellm.  Read by Mary Crummer

May we who are merely inconvenienced
Remember those whose lives are at stake.
May we who have no risk factors
Remember those most vulnerable.
May we who have the luxury of working from home
Remember those who must choose between preserving their health or making their rent.
May we who have the flexibility to care for our children when their schools close
Remember those who have no options.
May we who have to cancel our trips
Remember those that have no safe place to go.
May we who are losing our margin money in the tumult of the economic market
Remember those who have no margin at all.
May we who settle in for a quarantine at home
Remember those who have no home.
As fear grips our country, Let us choose love.
During this time when we cannot physically wrap our arms around each other,
Let us yet find ways to be the loving embrace of God to our neighbors.

Reading – offered by Doug Kiker
And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply.

Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.

And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.

And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed. – Kitty O’Meara.

Choral Response 
“In the Lord I’ll be ever thankful, in the Lord I will rejoice— look to God, do not be afraid, lift up your voices, the Lord is near. Lift up your voices, the Lord is near.”

Prayers of the People – offered by Talia Raymond

Time for Children (of all ages!) -The spiritual practice of washing your hands- offered by Mark Burlingame

Sacred Learnings in the Theater of Now 

Scripture- Romans 12:2, read by Mary Crummer.
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you might discern what is the will of God. What is good and acceptable and perfect.”

Reflection – Sacred Learnings in the Theater of Now- Andy Bachmann