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1 Autumn Taster Workshop: we will be offering a variety of different experiences of meditation: walking a labyrinth, seated meditation, multi-sensory meditation, and lectio divina, on an Autumn Saturday at Unitarian New Meeting in Birmingham. If you want to attend, please let Sue Woolley know! 2 Sustainability Audits: these are now under way and will … Read more
Prelude Chanson de Matin by Edward Elgar Opening Words by David Usher (adapted) We come together today, seeking a reality beyond our narrow selves; that binds us in compassion, love, and understanding to other human beings, and to the interdependent web of all living things. May our hearts and minds be opened … Read more
Prelude Melodia Africana I by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words by Andrew Pakula (adapted) Come into this circle of community. Come into this sacred space. Be not tentative. Bring your whole self! Bring the joy that makes your heart sing. Bring your kindness and your compassion. Bring also your sorrow, your pain. Bring … Read more
Prelude Melodia Africana I by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words by Alex Brianson We gather today to share a particular kind of community – a community of faith in which each of us is free to quest for our own ways of being spiritual and religious. We gather today to think about how … Read more
Prelude Melodia Africana I by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words Draw Close by Ben Downing Friends, draw close. Listen together. Sing together. Pray together. Share the mysteries which never die, And the silences that never cease. And as we share and celebrate and worship, One in all, and all in each, May we … Read more
Prelude Melodia Africana I by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words by Jan Smith (adapted) Welcome, Welcome to this sacred space, Whatever path has brought you here, Whatever load you carry, Let us rest a while together. May our hearts be open to accept what comes to us as a stranger, May our minds … Read more
Prelude Melodia Africana I by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words by Cliff Reed We are here to love – to love each other, to love our frail, wounded selves, to love our broken world, and to love its suffering people. Let us worship so that love will flow. Chalice Lighting (you may wish … Read more
Prelude Chanson de Matin by Edward Elgar Opening Words by David Usher Because we are finite, we lift up our eyes to the infinite sky, and feel wonder and awe. Because we have stumbled, we take the tender hand which beckons us to rise, and feel strength and reassurance. Because we are … Read more
Prelude Melodia Africana I by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words by Alex Brianson Spirit of Life, you who animate the Universe Help us to remember the gift that is a human life. With our consciousness and senses, we can touch, taste, see and feel So much that is good, and alluring, and enticing. Spirit of … Read more
Prelude Melodia Africana I by Ludovico Einaudi Opening Words by Andrew Pakula (adapted) There is a place of peace, A place of wisdom, A place of love. May this sacred centre be our guide, May it be our strength for the journey, May it fill us with hope when all seems hopeless, And … Read more