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Rev. Meg Barnhouse
November 11, 2018
First UU Church of Austin
4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756
austinuu.org
Persistence, endurance, resilience, grit – is it a mistake to be goal-oriented? Is there a better way to think about forward movement?
Call to Worship
– Rabindranath Tagore
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain
but for the heart to conquer it.
Let me not look for allies in life’s battlefield
but to my own strength.
Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved
but hope for the patience to win my freedom.
Grant that I may not be a coward,
feeling Your mercy in my success alone;
But let me find the grasp of Your hand in my failure.
Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person will worship something – have no doubt about that.
We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts – but it will out.
That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and character.
Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
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