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“Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning

Love has to be put into action and that action is service.

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From the UU Hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition, use selection 614 by Black Elk.

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"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.  The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valley to traverse."

- Helen Keller

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We gather to affirm the potential we all share:

for building community, for undertaking constructive change,

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"Formal religion always gives us hints about the depth dimension on anything in daily life, in this case the idea that work is not the secular enterprise the modern world thinks it is.”

- Thomas Moore

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From the UU Hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition, use selection 490, “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver

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Opening Words:     “Why should we live in such a hurry and waste of life?  We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.  I wish to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.  I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not lived.  I do not wish to life what is not life, living is so dear, nor do I wish to practice resignation, unless it is quite necessary.  I wish to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.  I wan