SUNDAY SERVICE 

Onsite & Online ~  10 am

 

Merlin Snider 

Hello Goodbye 

From the first breath until the last, our lives are framed by beginnings and endings. Most of us do better with the beginnings than the endings. Yet ancient wisdom teaches us that there is a time to gain and a time to lose. We confront losses of many kinds in the course of a life. Accepting the impermanence of all things and learning to say goodbye to everything, one sweet piece at a time, puts me in the here and now, which can be a surprisingly happy place to be.

 

Opening Music – Moonshadow by Cat Stevens

Welcome & Call to Worship – Merlin Snider with song: “This Most Amazing Day” by Merlin Snider

Introduction – Rick Wells 

Chalice Lighting – Merlin Snider

Opening Song – “Turn, Turn, Turn” written by by Pete Seeger

Time for All Ages – “The Tenth Good Thing About Barney” by Judith Viorst, read by Deborah Snider

Announcements – Rick Wells

Singing our Children Out – Merlin Snider

Offering – Rick Wells

Offering Music – “The Water Knows” by Merlin Snider, performed by Merlin and Deborah Snider, Samantha Carnell, and Randall Edwards

Joys and Sorrows – If you are in person please fill out an index card. You can also email your joys or concerns during the week to jns@chaliceuu.org

Time of Meditation – Merlin Snider

Song – #1031 Filled with Lovingkindness”

Talk – “Hello, Goodbye”, Merlin Snider 

Closing Song – “Let the Life I’ve Lived” arranged from traditional African American spiritual roots by Gwyneth Walker. 

Closing Words – Merlin Snider

Extinguishing the Chalice – Rick Wells

Send Off – Merlin Snider

Postlude – Hello, Goodbye by The Beatles