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Rev. Meg Barnhouse
May 22, 2022
First UU Church of Austin
4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756
www.austinuu.org
Making commitments is complicated. Sometimes they are easy and sometimes they are hard to keep. How do we build our self-esteem by doing what we say we are going to do?
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
Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. Whatever form we are, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing; a lifelong sharing of love with others.
– Mother Teresa
Affirming Our Mission
Together we nourish souls, transform lives, and do justice to build the Beloved Community.
Meditation Reading
Stand by this space, work for it and sacrifice for it. There is nothing in all the world that is so important as being loyal to this space which has placed before it the loftiest ideals, which has comforted us in our sorrows, strengthened us for noble duty and made the world beautiful.
Do not demand immediate results but rejoyce that we are worthy to be entrusted with this great message. If you are strong enough to work for a great true principle without counting the cost go on finding ever new applications of those truths and new enjoyment of their contemplation always trusting in the one God which ever lives in us.
– Lydia Brown
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