On “A Great Wagon”

Join us for this service via an on-line Zoom Meeting

Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī was a 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar and theologian, and Sufi mystic.  He believed music, poetry, and dance were paths for reaching God, and this morning we’ll explore various forms of relationship with the Divine inspired by his poem “A Great Wagon.”  This is the service purchased at last year’s Reeb Rave by Susan Podebradsky.

Share the Plate

  • Share the Plate donations this week will go to Open Doors for Refugees, an all-volunteer organization founded in 2016 and based in Madison, whose mission is to help refugees make a home in the Madison area.

    Our donations will directly support their skill-building program and Home Supply program for refugees.


Order of Service

  • Gathering Song: #188 “Come, Come, Whoever You Are”
  • Centering Sound
  • Welcome
  • Prelude: “The Breeze at Dawn”, words of Rumi, music by Armand Amar and Levon Minassian, video by Enea Bozeglav
  • Call to Worship
  • Opening Hymn: #389 “Gathered Here”
  • Lighting the Chalice
  • Musical Response
  • Time for All Ages: “Honi and the Carob Tree,” from the Babylonian Talmud
  • Hymn: #298 “Wake Now My Senses”
  • Wisdom from the World’s Traditions: Excerpts from “A Great Wagon” Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī
  • Reflection: “On ‘A Great Wagon’” with Rev. Karen
  • Offering: “Out Beyond” Words of Rumi, set by Nicholas Fairbanks, sung by Amanda Werhane
  • Joys and Sorrows
  • Closing Hymn: #311 “Let It Be a Dance”
  • Extinguishing the Chalice and Benediction
  • Postlude: “And I Didn’t Know,” from “Ruby”