{"id":135974,"date":"2022-04-18T10:56:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T16:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?p=135974"},"modified":"2022-04-18T10:56:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T16:56:57","slug":"coming-to-life-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/coming-to-life-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming to Life again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2504\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-135974-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2022-04-17_Coming_to_Life_again.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2022-04-17_Coming_to_Life_again.mp3\">http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2022-04-17_Coming_to_Life_again.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2022-04-17_Coming_to_Life_again.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?powerpress_pinw=135974-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2022-04-17_Coming_to_Life_again.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2022-04-17_Coming_to_Life_again.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 \/>April 17, 2022<br \/>First UU Church of Austin<br \/>4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756<br \/>www.austinuu.org<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Inanna, in the Babylonian faith story, goes to the underworld to visit her sister. At every level of the underworld, she is stripped of one more element of her rank and dignity. After three days in the underworld, she returns to the overworld. What does this story have to teach us about loss and resurrection?<\/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\">i thank You God for most this amazing day: <br \/>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 <br \/>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\">AN EYE FOR MIRACLES<br \/>Diego Valeri<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">You who have an eye for miracles <br \/>Regard the bud now appearing <br \/>on the bare branch of the fragile young tree. <br \/>It&#8217;s a mere dot, <br \/>A nothing. <br \/>But already it&#8217;s a flower, <br \/>already a fruit, <br \/>already its own death and resurrection.<\/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=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/category\/sermons\/indexes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>SERMON INDEX<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Most sermons during the past 22 years are available online through this website. Click on the index link above 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:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/first-unitarian-universalist\/id372427776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>PODCASTS<\/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 above or copying and pasting this link. https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/first-unitarian-universalist\/id372427776<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg BarnhouseApril 17, 2022First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org Inanna, in the Babylonian faith story, goes to the underworld to visit her sister. 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