September 23, 2020
September 23, 2020
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Opening/Centering Song: Here in this Place
Opening Prayer: God Dance by Edwina Gateley
Living God,
Let me flow with the waters, fly with the wind and shine with the stars.
Let me round with the moon and stretch with the sky.
And, in my dance, Living God, let me become the waters, the moon, the wind and the stars dancing and leaping through the universe clear and shining, dancing your name.
Amen.
First Reading is by Rachel Carson
Like the sea itself, the shore fascinates us who return to it, the place of our dim ancestral beginnings. In the recurrent rhythms of tides and surf and the varied life of the tide lines there is the obvious attraction of movement and chance and beauty. There is also, I am convinced, a deeper fascination born of inner meaning and significance.
When we go down to the low tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water; a place of compromise and conflict and eternal change. For us as living creatures it has a special meaning as an area in or near which some entity that could be distinguished as life first drifted in the shallow waters -reproducing, evolving, yielding that endless varied stream of living things that has surged through time and space to occupy the earth.
Second Reading is by John O’Donohue
The ocean is one of the delights for the human eye. The seashore is a theater of fluency. When the mind is entangled it is soothing to walk by the seashore, to get the rhythm of the ocean inside you. The ocean disentangles the netted mind. Everything loosens and comes back to itself. The false divisions are relieved, released, and healed.
Prayers for Creation:
Holy One,
May we learn to care for creation as a gift from you.
We have polluted our rivers with poisons.
Response: May we learn to care for creation as a gift from you.
We have treated our streams as waste dumps.
Response: May we learn to care for creation as a gift from you.
We have turned living waters into deathtraps.
Response: May we learn to care for creation as a gift from you.
We have wasted precious waters in luxury living.
May we learn to care for creation as a gift from you.
Amen.
Closing Prayer: The Prayer of Jesus: An Interpretation
Dear One, closer to us than our own hearts, farther from us than the most distant star,
you are beyond naming.
May your powerful presence become obvious not only in the undeniable glory of the sky,
but also in the seemingly base and common processes of the earth.
Give us what we need, day by day, to keep body and soul together,
because clever as you have made us, we still owe our existence to you.
We recognize that to be reconciled with you, we must live peaceably and justly with other human beings, putting hate and bitterness behind us.
We are torn between our faith in your goodness
and our awareness of the evil in your creation, so deliver us from the temptation to despair.
Yours alone is the universe and all its majesty and beauty.
So it is, Amen.
Song: Water is Life
Action: Support 4Ocean
4ocean was born on a plastic-covered beach in Bali, Indonesia
Our founders, Alex and Andrew, have been around the ocean their entire lives. They both grew up on the Florida coast, swimming, diving, fishing, and surfing. After becoming friends in college, they saved up their money for the surf trip of a lifetime to Bali. When they arrived, they found a beach that was completely covered in plastic, with trash-filled waves delivering more garbage with each break.
They asked a local why such a popular, and otherwise beautiful, shoreline wasn’t kept clean, and were told that the beaches had been cleaned just hours earlier. The trash they were wading through had only just washed ashore.
Their eyes were immediately opened to the magnitude of the ocean plastic crisis, and they vowed on the spot to try to do something about it.
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