{"id":134210,"date":"2020-04-14T06:54:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T12:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?p=134210"},"modified":"2020-04-14T06:54:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T12:54:16","slug":"a-trip-to-the-underworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/a-trip-to-the-underworld\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trip to the Underworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3882\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-134210-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2020-04-12_Trip_to_the_underworld.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2020-04-12_Trip_to_the_underworld.mp3\">http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2020-04-12_Trip_to_the_underworld.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2020-04-12_Trip_to_the_underworld.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?powerpress_pinw=134210-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2020-04-12_Trip_to_the_underworld.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2020-04-12_Trip_to_the_underworld.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Text of this sermon is not yet available. Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Rev. Meg Barnhouse<br \/>April 12, 2020<br \/>First UU Church of Austin<br \/>4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756<br \/>www.austinuu.org<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Rev. Meg tells one of the oldest human religious stories, a story from almost 4000 years ago, a story about resurrection often called Inanna&#8217;s Descent into the Underworld. We are descending these days, deeper and deeper, and we do not know what the world will look like when we come back out again.<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"4\" width=\"300\" \/>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Chalice Lighting<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">We light this chalice so that its flame may signify the spiritual strands of light that bind our hearts and souls with one another. Even while we must be physically apart, we bask in its warmth together.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Call to Worship<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">i thank You God for most this amazing<br \/>day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees<br \/>and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything<br \/>which is natural which is infinite which is yes<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">(i who have died am alive again today,<br \/>and this is the sun&#8217;s birthday; this is the birth<br \/>day of life and love and wings and of the gay<br \/>great happening illimitably earth)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">how should tasting touching hearing seeing<br \/>breathing any-lifted from the no<br \/>of all nothing-human merely being doubt unimaginable You?<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">(now the ears of my ears awake and<br \/>now the eyes of my eyes are opened)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8211; e e cummings<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Affirming Our Mission<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Together we nourish souls, transform lives, and do justice to build the Beloved Community.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Meditation Reading<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There&#8217;s an initial uprush of relief at first, then-for me, anyway- a profound dislocation. My old assumptions about how the world works are buried, yet my new ones aren&#8217;t yet operational.There&#8217;s been a death of sorts, but without a few days in hell, no resurrection is possible.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8211; Mary Karr from Lit<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Music<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">SILENCE MY SOUL<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Silence my soul, these trees are prayers.<br \/>I asked the tree, &#8220;Tell me about God&#8221;;<br \/>then it blossomed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8211; Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"4\" width=\"300\" \/>\n<p align=\"left\">Most sermons during the past 20 years are available online through this website. Click on the index link below to find tables of all sermons for each year listed by date (newest to oldest) with topic and speaker. Click on a topic to go to that sermon.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/category\/sermons\/indexes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>SERMON INDEX<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Podcasts of this and other sermons are also available for free on iTunes. You can find them by clicking on the podcast link below or copying and pasting this link. https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/first-unitarian-universalist\/id372427776<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/first-unitarian-universalist\/id372427776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>PODCASTS<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text of this sermon is not yet available. Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg BarnhouseApril 12, 2020First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org Rev. 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