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Rev. Chris Jimmerson
July 5, 2020
First UU Church of Austin
4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756
www.austinuu.org
In this challenging time through which we are living, it is important that we offer ourselves and others many blessings. Let us comfort one another and accept one another’s comforting. We do not have to pretend everything is ok.
Chalice Lighting
This is the flame of our hearts as we strive for justice for everyone. This is the light we shine on systems of oppression until they are no more. This is the warmth we share with one another as our struggle becomes our salvation.
Call to Worship
So what then does it it mean to offer a blessing – to be a blessing? To bless something or someone is to invoke its wholeness. To help remind the person or thing you are blessing of its essence, its sacredness, its beauty. And to help remind ourself too. Blessing doesn not fix anything. It is not a cure. It does not instill health or well being or strength, instead, it reminds that those things are already there within us.
Affirming Our Mission
Together we nourish souls, transform lives, and do justice to build the Beloved Community.
Meditation Reading
From MY GRANDFATHER’S BLESSING
Dr Rachael Naomi RemenA blessing is not something that one person gives another. A blessing is a moment of meeting, a certain kind of relationship where both people involved remember and acknowledge their true nature and worth, and strengthen what is whole in one another.
By making a place for wholeness within our relationships we offer others the opportunity be whole without shame and become a place of refuge from everything in them and around them that is not genuine. We enable people to remember who they are.
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