Moment of Oneness, May 28,2025 - Prepared by Jean Albert

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An Invitation to Winding Down From Our Day

Welcome: Welcome everyone to this evening’s Moment of Oneness. I invite you to a time of quiet solidarity and repose. I invite you to put down the burdens you carry in your heart, the worries on your mind and release the tense muscle in your body. 

I invite you to come home to yourself and to the Divine within.

In this moment of time, no matter what is happening in the world around us, we are grounded and safe in our Eternal One, who continues to call each of us: Beloved.

Opening Prayer

Eternal One,

Silence …from whom my words come;

Questioner…from whom my questions arise;

Disturber…in whom alone I find my rest;

Mystery…in whose depths I find healing and myself;

Enfold me now in your presence;

Restore to me your peace;

Renew me through your power;

And ground me in your grace.

Opening song: Healer of My Soul by John Michael Talbot

https://youtu.be/5FISm9JfmTA?si=I4pu7Ns8wHSNgnQ1

I am in Need of …of What?

Well, God,

I made it through another sweet-sour time,

And here I am,

Nibbled, frazzled, puzzled, awed 

And in need of …what? 

A chuckle, maybe,

A revolution begun with a belly laugh

A Bronx cheer in the face of the onslaughts

Of disaster and death, itself.

Such is my need; and this is my wonder;

Are you really as humourless

As grimly serious

As I have made you out to be? 

Or do aardvarks and monkeys,

Bull frogs and platypuses,

Puppies and porpoises,

And people, perhaps,

Reveal the comic side of your grace,

The playful side of your love?

Tickle me into giggling down 

The wailing walls of my endless grievances. 

And trip up my waddling pomposities.

Lord of laughter, as of tears,                                              

Shake me awake

And teach me to laugh at myself,

At my black-draped solemnity,

Over my petty pre-occupation with success and failure,

Through all the hurt and adversity

Until my laughter lures me deep

Beneath the terrors without names,

Beneath the questions without answers,

Beneath the pain without relief;

Lures me deep

To the love in me unused,

The strength unspent,

To the courage untapped,

To the dream unrisked,

To the beauty unexpressed;

All the way down

To the unescapable bottom,

To the awareness that I must get on with being who I am

As fully as I can,

As unflinchingly as I can,

As accurately as I can,

Which is to say,

As gracefully,

As powerfully,

As faithfully,

As you have created me to be.

Leader: Let us take a minute to rest in communal silence as we ponder what sits on our hearts and minds and in our bodies. What did we (try to) lay down at the start of our prayer time? 

Moments of silence

Shared Petitions What or who we would like to pray for at this time?

Prayer of Petition: Leaning In: A Prayer of Intention by Christopher Grundy

https://youtu.be/rot5M9Kirhc 

Leader: Let us raise one hand in blessing and place our other hand cupped and open, to receive our closing blessing:

May God bless us in our sleep with rest,

In our dreams with vision,

In our waking with a calm mind,

In our souls with the friendship of the Holy Spirit

This night and every night. Amen