“Transformation:  Thresholds and Layers”, March 3, 2024

Every day we cross thresholds - real and imagined - that can change how we view and relate to the world around us. Each time we change, we add to the layers of experience we accumulate over our lives: deposits of joy and sorrow on the foundation of who we are. Crossing and changing are just other ways of transforming. Join us as we examine the possibilities and challenges of transformation.


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ORDER OF SERVICE Mar 3, 2024 Service Leader: Chorealis
“Transformation: Thresholds and Layers”
Chimes
Greeting, Land Acknowledgement, and Announcements
Prelude “Come With Me” by Gordon Ritchie (first verse only) Chorealis
Opening Words “Thresholds” by Arlen Goff
Chalice Lighting “May This Flame” by Bets Wienecke
Hymn 1018 “Come and Go With Me”
Sharing Our Abundance- International Convocation of UU Women (ICW) https://www.intlwomensconvo.org/
Hymn 402 From You I Receive (Sing 2X)
Reading “A Prayer for Desert Times” by Margaret A Keip
Hymn 1019 “Everything Possible”
Candles of Care & Connection “May It Be”  by Eithne Ni Bhraonain - Chorealis
Reading “For When I Really Don’t Want to Learn This” by Elizabeth Nguyen
Service Leader Reflection “Thresholds and Layers” by Karen Mills
Meditation
In word “Formation Prayer” by George Grimm-Howell
In silence
in song “Dawn” by Jacob Narverrud  - Chorealis
Responsive Reading “Litany for Becoming” by enfleshed
Hymn of the Month “Come With Me” by Gordon Ritchie
Extinguishing the Chalice “To Serve, to Grow, and to Love” by Kent McKusick
Closing Words “May You Be Changed” by Emily Richards
Postlude “Learn to Fly” by Mary Grigolia - Chorealis
“Carry the Flame”

Transformation Thresholds And Layers March 3 2024

The Unitarian Church of Edmonton is a liberal, multi-generational, religious community. We celebrate a rich mosaic of free-thinking, spiritually-questing individuals joined in common support and action. We welcome diversity including diversity of beliefs from divine believers to humanists, from pagans to atheists and agnostics. We believe in the compassion of the human heart, the warmth of community, the pursuit of justice and the search of meaning in our lives.

We gather with gratitude on traditional Cree lands that are now a part of Treaty Six and shared by many nations. A treaty is an inheritance, a responsibility and a relationship. May we be good neighbours to one another, good stewards to our planet and good ancestors to our children.

Transformation Thresholds And Layers March 3 2024

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