Join us for this service via an on-line Zoom Meeting
Are you finding it hard to access joy in this time, or maybe noticing some guilt when you do feel joy? Does it feel like opening to joy might be a betrayal of the grief you or others are feeling? You are not alone! This morning, we’ll explore how we can be both grieving and good.
It’s Youth Sunday! Rev. Karen will meet with our youth group after the service.
Share the Plate
Order of Service
- Gathering Song: #188 “Come, Come, Whoever You Are”
- Centering Sound
- Welcome
- Prelude: “Joy Came Back,” Heather Pierson
- Call to Worship
- Opening Hymn: “Sacred Circle” by Heather Pierson
- Lighting the Chalice
- Musical Response
- Time for All Ages: Oskar and the Eight Blessings,” by Richard Simon and Tanya Simon
- Hymn: #55 “Dark of Winter”
- Wisdom from the World’s Traditions: “Joy is Hard,” by Joe Cherry
- Reflection: “Grieving and Good” with Rev. Karen
- Wisdom from the World’s Traditions: “Keeping Faith,” by Lynn Ungar
- Reflection: “Grieving and Good” with Rev. Karen
- Offering: “My Joy is Heavy,” The Bengsons
- Joys and Sorrows
- Closing Hymn: #108 “My Life Flows on in Endless Song”
- Extinguishing the Chalice and Benediction
- Postlude: “A Hundred Days,” The Bengsons
Topics: Joy