{"id":22004,"date":"2018-12-02T17:16:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T23:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?p=22004"},"modified":"2018-12-02T17:16:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T23:16:26","slug":"live-from-pflugerville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/live-from-pflugerville\/","title":{"rendered":"Live from Pflugerville"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9727\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-22004-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2018-12-02_Live_from_Pflugerville.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2018-12-02_Live_from_Pflugerville.mp3\">http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2018-12-02_Live_from_Pflugerville.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2018-12-02_Live_from_Pflugerville.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?powerpress_pinw=22004-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2018-12-02_Live_from_Pflugerville.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2018-12-02_Live_from_Pflugerville.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p align=\"left\">Rev. Meg Barnhouse<br \/>\nRev. Chris Jimmerson and Jules Jaramillo<br \/>\nDecember 2, 2018<br \/>\nFirst UU Church of Austin<br \/>\n4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756<br \/>\naustinuu.org<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><i>Meg, Chris, Jules, and Brent will be live-streaming from Meg&#8217;s house while you worship from your own cozy spot of choice since the church building is closed with no entry until Saturday, December 8th. We will be talking about mystery, family, and whatever else comes up as you call in on the live-stream page.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"4\" width=\"300\" \/>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Call to Worship<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">THE FEAST OF LIGHTS<br \/>\n<i>Emma Lazarus<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Kindle the taper like the steadfast star<br \/>\nAblaze on evening&#8217;s forehead o&#8217;er the earth,<br \/>\nAnd add each night a lustre till afar<br \/>\nAn eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth<br \/>\nClash, Israel, the cymbals, touch the lyre,<br \/>\nBlow the brass trumpet and the harsh-tongued horn;<br \/>\nChant psalms of victory till the heart take fire,<br \/>\nThe Maccabean spirit leap new-born.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Reading<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><i>C. JoyBell<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you&#8217;re going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Reading<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is the history of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage and kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst it destroys our capacity to do domething. If we remember those times and places, and there are so many, where people have behaved magnificantly this gives us the energy to act and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act in however small way we don&#8217;t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinate succession of presents and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvel.<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"4\" width=\"300\" \/>\n<p>Text of this sermon is not available. Click the play button to listen.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><i>Podcasts of this and other sermons are also available for free on iTunes. You can find them <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/first-unitarian-universalist\/id372427776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Most sermons delivered at the First UU Church of Austin during the past 18 years are available online through this website. You will find links to them in the right sidebar menu labeled Sermons. The <a href=\"http:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/category\/sermons\/indexes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indexes<\/a> link leads to tables of all sermons for each year listed by date (newest to oldest) with topic and speaker. Click on the topic to go to a sermon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Meg Barnhouse Rev. Chris Jimmerson and Jules Jaramillo December 2, 2018 First UU Church of Austin 4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756 austinuu.org Meg, Chris, Jules, and Brent will be live-streaming from Meg&#8217;s house while you worship from your own cozy spot of choice since the church building is closed with no entry until&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19,16,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-available","category-meg-barnhouse","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22005,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004\/revisions\/22005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}