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Rev. Meg Barnhouse
November 7, 2021
First UU Church of Austin
4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756
www.austinuu.org
It is so easy to worry about the future, and it is easy to be weighed down by regrets about things you have said or done, or by anger at things that have been done to you. One cure for anxiety and regrets, the wisdom teachers say, is remaining in the now.
Chalice Lighting
This is the flame we hold in our hearts as we strive for justice for everyone. This is the light we shine upon systems of oppression until they are no more. This is the warmth that we share with one another as our struggle becomes our salvation.
Call to Worship
Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over dispair not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.
– Robin Wall Kimmerer – Brading Sweetgrass
Affirming Our Mission
Together we nourish souls, transform lives, and do justice to build the Beloved Community.
Learn more about Beloved Community at this link. – The King Center
Meditation Reading
These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full- blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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