{"id":134836,"date":"2021-01-10T14:33:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T20:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?p=134836"},"modified":"2021-02-18T16:41:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T22:41:29","slug":"wish-you-were-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wish-you-were-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Wish you were here"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_754\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-134836-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2021-01-10_Wish_you_were_here.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2021-01-10_Wish_you_were_here.mp3\">http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2021-01-10_Wish_you_were_here.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2021-01-10_Wish_you_were_here.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?powerpress_pinw=134836-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2021-01-10_Wish_you_were_here.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2021-01-10_Wish_you_were_here.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Rev. Meg Barnhouse<br \/>January 10, 2021<br \/>First UU Church of Austin<br \/>4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756<br \/>www.austinuu.org<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">How can we be there for each other in this painful time of crisis? How can we linger in our witness of the pain and lack of clarity without trying to fix things for everyone? How can we practice true presence with our country and with one another?<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"4\" width=\"300\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Chalice Lighting<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Call to Worship<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">We are living in the greatest revolution in history &#8211; a huge spontaneous upheaval of the entire human race: not the revolution planned and carried out by any particular party, race, or nation, but a deep elemental boiling over of all the inner contradictions that have ever been in man, a revelation of the chaotic forces inside everybody. This is not something we have chosen, nor is it something we are free to avoid.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">This revolution is a profound spiritual crisis of the whole world, manifested largely in desperation, cynicism, violence, conflict, self-contradiction, ambivalence, fear and hope, doubt and belief, creation and destructiveness, progress and regression, obsessive attachments to images, idols, slogans, programs that only dull the general anguish for a moment until it bursts out everywhere in a still more acute and terrifying form. We do not know if we are building a fabulously wonderful world or destroying all that we have ever had, all that we have achieved.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">All the inner force of man is boiling and bursting out, the good together with the evil, the good poisoned by evil and fighting it, the evil pretending to be good and revealing itself in the most dreadful crimes, justified and rationalized by the purest and most innocent intentions.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">-Thomas Merton (1915-1968)<\/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<p align=\"left\">Learn more about Beloved Community at this link. &#8211;\u00a0The King Center<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Meditation Reading<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">BLESSING IN A TIME OF VIOLENCE<br \/>by Jan Richardson<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Which is to say<br \/>this blessing<br \/>is always.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Which is to say<br \/>there is no place<br \/>this blessing<br \/>does not long<br \/>to cry out<br \/>in lament,<br \/>to weep its words<br \/>in sorrow,<br \/>to scream its lines<br \/>in sacred rage.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Which is to say<br \/>there is no day<br \/>this blessing ceases<br \/>to whisper<br \/>into the ear<br \/>of the dying,<br \/>the despairing,<br \/>the terrified.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Which is to say<br \/>there is no moment<br \/>this blessing refuses<br \/>to sing itself<br \/>into the heart<br \/>of the hated<br \/>and the hateful,<br \/>the victim<br \/>and the victimizer,<br \/>with every last<br \/>ounce of hope<br \/>it has.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Which is to say<br \/>there is none<br \/>that can stop it,<br \/>none that can<br \/>halt its course,<br \/>none that will<br \/>still its cadence,<br \/>none that will<br \/>delay its rising,<br \/>none that can keep it<br \/>from springing forth<br \/>from the mouths of us<br \/>who hope,<br \/>from the hands of us<br \/>who act,<br \/>from the hearts of us<br \/>who love,<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">from the feet of us<br \/>who will not cease<br \/>our stubborn, aching<br \/>marching, marching<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">until this blessing<br \/>has spoken its final word,<br \/>until this blessing<br \/>has breathed<br \/>its benediction<br \/>in every place,<br \/>in every tongue:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Peace.<br \/>Peace.<br \/>Peace.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Sermon<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Text of this sermon is not yet available.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"4\" width=\"300\" \/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Most sermons during the past 21 years are available online through this website. 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