{"id":9216,"date":"2012-01-16T11:58:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T17:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?p=9216"},"modified":"2012-01-16T11:58:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T17:58:41","slug":"installation-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/installation-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Installation Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8051\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9216-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2012-01-15_Installation_Service.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2012-01-15_Installation_Service.mp3\">http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2012-01-15_Installation_Service.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2012-01-15_Installation_Service.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?powerpress_pinw=9216-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2012-01-15_Installation_Service.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2012-01-15_Installation_Service.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Rev. Peter Morales<\/p>\n<p>President of the Unitarian Universalist Association<\/p>\n<p>January 15, 2012<\/p>\n<p><em>Audio of this service does not include the music and some of the readings due to technical constraints. An unabridged video of the complete service can be purchased from our bookstore. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/first-unitarian-universalist\/id372427776\" target=\"_blank\">Podcasts<\/a> of sermons are also available for free on iTunes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z5cYpP0o8so\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Call to Celebration:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rev. Bret Lortie, Minister, First UU Church of San Antonio<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Chalice Lighting:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Exerpt from\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Joy Luck Club<\/span>\u00a0by Amy Tan<\/p>\n<p>Read by Rev. Kathleen Ellis, Co-Minister, Live Oak UU Church<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">O! You bad little thing! &#8212; said the woman, teasing her baby granddaughter. &#8220;Is Buddha teaching you to laugh for no reason?&#8221; As the baby continued to gurgle, the woman felt a deep wish stirring in hear heart. &#8220;Even if I could live forever,&#8221; she said to the baby, &#8220;I still don&#8217;t know which way I would teach you. I was once so free and innocent. I too laughed for no reason. But later I threw away my foolish innocence to protect myself. And then I taught my daughter, your mother, to shed her innocence so she would not be hurt as well. Little one, was this kind of thinking wrong?&#8230; &#8221; The baby laughed, listening to her grandmother&#8217;s laments.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;O! O! you say you are laughing because you have already lived forever, over and over again? You say you are the Queen Mother of the Western Skies. now come back to give me the answer Good, good. I am listening . . . Thank you, little Queen. And you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Welcome:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Susan Thomson, President-Elect First UU Church of Austin<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Greetings from the Austin Community:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>State Representative Donna Howard<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pilgrim at Tinker Creek<\/span>\u00a0by Annie Dillard<\/p>\n<p>Read by Rev. Eliza Galaher, Wildflower UU Church<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">When the doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who was no longer blind saw &#8220;the tree with the lights in it.&#8221; It was for this tree I searched through the peach orchards of summer, in the forests of fall and down winter and spring for years. Then one day I was walking along Tinker Creek thinking of nothing at all and I saw the tree with the lights in it. I saw the backyard cedar where the mourning doves roost charged and transfigured, each cell buzzing with flame. I stood on the grass with the lights in it, grass that was wholly fire, utterly focused and utterly dreamed. It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance. The lights of the fire abated, but I&#8217;m still spending the power. Gradually the lights went out in the cedar, the colors died, the cells unflamed and disappeared. I was still ringing. I had my whole life been a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. I have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I live for it, for the moment when the mountains open and a new light roars in spate through the crack, and the mountains slam.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Greetings from the Southwest UU Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Nichols, District Director for Lifespan Faith Development<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Charge to the Congregation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andrea Lerner, DE Metro NY District<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Credo<\/span>\u00a0by Judith Roche<\/p>\n<p>Read by Sharon Moore and Michael Kersey,<\/p>\n<p>Co-Chairs of the Ministerial Search Committee<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I believe in the cave paintings at Lascaux,<\/p>\n<p>the beauty of the clavicle,<\/p>\n<p>the journey of the salmon,<\/p>\n<p>her leap up any barrier,<\/p>\n<p>the scent of home waters<\/p>\n<p>she finds through celestial navigation.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in all the gods &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t like some of them.<\/p>\n<p>I believe the war is always against the imagination,<\/p>\n<p>is recurring, repetitive, and relentless.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in fairies, elves, angels and bodisatvas,<\/p>\n<p>Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen and heard ghosts.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that Raven invented the Earth<\/p>\n<p>And so did Coyote. In archeology<\/p>\n<p>lie the clues. The threshold is numinous<\/p>\n<p>and the way in is the way out.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in the alphabets &#8211; all of them &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>and the stories seeping from their letters.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in dance as prayer, that the heart<\/p>\n<p>beat invented rhythm and chant -.<\/p>\n<p>or is it the other way around &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I believe in the wisdom of the body.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that art saves lives<\/p>\n<p>and love makes it worth living them.<\/p>\n<p>And that could be the other way around, too.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Offering for the Unitarian Universalist Association\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Laurel Amabile<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Sermon:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Peter Morales, President, Unitarian Universalist Association<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Act of Installation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Susan Thomson, President-Elect<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Charge to the Minister\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kiya Heartwood<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Fearing Paris<\/span>\u00a0by Marsha Truman Cooper<\/p>\n<p>Read by Rev. Daniel O&#8217;Connell, Minister, First UU Church of Houston<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Suppose that what you fear<\/p>\n<p>could be trapped<\/p>\n<p>and held in Paris.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Then you would have<\/p>\n<p>the courage to go<\/p>\n<p>everywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0All the directions of the compass<\/p>\n<p>open to you,<\/p>\n<p>except the degrees east or west<\/p>\n<p>of true north<\/p>\n<p>that lead to Paris.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Still, you wouldn&#8217;t dare<\/p>\n<p>put your toes<\/p>\n<p>smack dab on the city limit line.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not really willing<\/p>\n<p>to stand on a mountainside,<\/p>\n<p>miles away,<\/p>\n<p>and watch the Paris lights<\/p>\n<p>come up at night.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Just to be on the safe side<\/p>\n<p>you decide to stay completely<\/p>\n<p>out of France.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">But then the danger<\/p>\n<p>seems too close<\/p>\n<p>even to those boundaries,<\/p>\n<p>and you feel<\/p>\n<p>the timid part of you<\/p>\n<p>covering the whole globe again.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">You need the kind of friend<\/p>\n<p>who learns your secret and says,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;See Paris First.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">We have not come to take prisoners<\/span>\u00a0by Hafiz<\/p>\n<p>Read by Brian Ferguson, Minister, San Marcos UU Fellowship<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">We have not come here to take prisoners,<\/p>\n<p>But to surrender ever more deeply<\/p>\n<p>To freedom and joy.<\/p>\n<p>We have not come into this exquisite world<\/p>\n<p>To hold ourselves hostage from love.<\/p>\n<p>Run my dear,<\/p>\n<p>From anything<\/p>\n<p>That may not strengthen<\/p>\n<p>Your precious budding wings.<\/p>\n<p>Run like hell my dear,<\/p>\n<p>From anyone likely<\/p>\n<p>To put a sharp knife<\/p>\n<p>Into the sacred, tender vision<\/p>\n<p>Of your beautiful heart.<\/p>\n<p>We have a duty to befriend<\/p>\n<p>Those aspects of obedience<\/p>\n<p>That stand outside of our house<\/p>\n<p>And shout to our reason<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;O please, O please,<\/p>\n<p>Come out and play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For we have not come here to take prisoners<\/p>\n<p>Or to confine our wondrous spirits,<\/p>\n<p>But to experience ever and ever more deeply<\/p>\n<p>Our divine courage, freedom and<\/p>\n<p>Light!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Benediction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Fountain<\/span>\u00a0by Denise Levertov<\/p>\n<p>Read by Rev. Meg Barnhouse<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Don&#8217;t say, don&#8217;t say there is no water<\/p>\n<p>to solace the dryness at our hearts.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen<\/p>\n<p>the fountain springing out of the rock wall<\/p>\n<p>and you drinking there. And I too<\/p>\n<p>before your eyes<\/p>\n<p>found footholds and climbed<\/p>\n<p>to drink the cool water.<\/p>\n<p>The woman of that place, shading her eyes,<\/p>\n<p>frowned as she watched &#8211; but not because<\/p>\n<p>she grudged the water,<\/p>\n<p>only because she was waiting<\/p>\n<p>to see we drank our fill and were<\/p>\n<p>refreshed.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t say, don&#8217;t say there is no water.<\/p>\n<p>That fountain is there among its scalloped<\/p>\n<p>green and gray stones,<\/p>\n<p>it is still there and always there<\/p>\n<p>with its quiet song and strange power<\/p>\n<p>to spring in us,<\/p>\n<p>up and out through the rock.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Peter Morales President of the Unitarian Universalist Association January 15, 2012 Audio of this service does not include the music and some of the readings due to technical constraints. An unabridged video of the complete service can be purchased from our bookstore. 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