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Rev. Lee Legault
January 16, 2022
First UU Church of Austin
4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756
www.austinuu.org
Lee Legault weathered the winter and summer 2021 COVID surges as a chaplain resident at Ascension Seton Medical Center of Austin, feeling privileged to walk beside patients and their families in the pandemic. She brings a grab bag of thoughts/advice/admonishments/assurances based on her time working with COVID patients and their families. As the Omicron variant rages, let’s learn and grow together to the benefit of the interconnected web of existence of which we are all apart. Lamenting together, we may take heart that we are never truly alone.
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
My work is an ourpouring of laughter through age-old tears.
It is an uttered anyhow through grief enduced fear.
It is a song of praise being sung in uncertain, unknowing lands.
It is a warmth shared behind half-masked faces and gloved hands.My work is seeing you how I want to be seen.
It is talking honestly and openly, but not being mean.
It is trusting in those who stand to my left and my right.
It is fighting with we all win, not just fighting to fight.My work is your work if you believe too,
that we all work together to make everyone free.
That together we can weather the struggles we face,
That God loves us, even hears us whenever we pray.– Rev. Jane Evans
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
We pause this hour to remember those whom we have lost those whom we fear losing those from whom we are separated those to whom we would offer a helping hand a caring heart and the will to live. We pause this hour also to hope for life and good living for love and kind words for reconciliation for the support of family and friends and for meaning in the struggle for wholeness. May our memories and hope renew us for the days and nights to come.
– Rev. Susan Milner
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