The Power of Pride and Love, a Sunday Service with Rev. Alice Syltie, Carol Cleaver, and Simon with music from Denise D’Angelo and Laura Keith King.
In honor of Pride Month, Carol Cleaver and her 18-year-old son, Simon, join Rev. Alice to share their stories. We hear how different the experience of coming out was for Carol compared to that of Simon. Both Carol and Simon would like us to understand how much better are the outcomes for kids who feel loved and supported and who have LGBTQ+ elders to help guide them.
Members and Friends, remember also to join us at 1230 today (06/21/20) for Coffee Hour on Zoom. You should have received log-in info via email., or you may ask another member for the info.
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Our Covenant
Love is the spirit of this church
And service its law.
This is our covenant:
To dwell together in peace,
To seek the truth in love
And to help one another.
There are two songs to sing this Sunday. One is Hymn #295, “Sing Out Praises For The Journey.” In her blog about UU hymns, Rev. Kimberley Debus explains why this is a favorite hymn of hers. “Perhaps,” she writes, “it’s because I talk about our journeys a lot — all kinds of journeys, from personal journeys to collective, from spiritual to intellectual, from historical to prophetic. Unitarian Universalist Mark De Wolfe’s lyrics are simply gorgeous:”
“Sing Out Praises for the Journey”
Sing out praises for the journey, pilgrims, we, who carry on,
searchers in the soul’s deep yearnings, like our forebears in their time.
We seek out the spirit’s wholeness in the endless human quest.
Look inside, your soul’s the kindling of the hearth fire pilgrims knew.
Find the spirit, always restless, find it in each mind and heart.
Touch and hold that ancient yearning, kindling for a newfound truth.
Stand we now upon the threshold, facing futures yet unknown.
Hearth behind us, wayside hostel built by those who knew wild roads.
Guard we e’er their sacred embers carried in our minds and hearts.
Topics: LGBTQ+, Virtual Service