Where Is Your Selma?

Where is your Selma?
Where will you be when freedom’s band
Shouts its hurrah?
Where your deep passion meets a deep need
That’s where God is planting a seed.
Raise up your voice and make the choice
To make your stand.

Where is your Tiananmen Square?
Where is the place you’ll make a stand;
(And) be what you dare?
Where your deep passion meets a deep need
That’s where God is planting a seed.
Raise up your voice and make the choice
To make your stand.

Where is your Dandi?
Where will you walk, joined hand in hand,
To reach your sea?
Where your deep passion meets a deep need
That’s where God is planting a seed.
Raise up your voice and make the choice
To make your stand.

Tune setting copyright 2007 by David Will.

Hope and Faith

Come, sisters all, and hope with me
Hearing the future’s melody;
Open the ears of your heart,
Join in the dance and we'll start
Weaving, believing, perceiving our dream.

Come, brothers all, and sing along
Trusting in faith to build our song;
Open the eyes of your heart,
Join in the dance and we’ll start
Weaving, believing, perceiving our dream.

Hope lets us hear tomorrow’s call;
Faith lets us sing her sweet chorale;
Open the heart of your heart,
Join in our dancing and start
Weaving, believing, perceiving our dream.

Copyright 2007. Base text from Lloyd S. Casson, Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew, Wilmington DE, " Hope is the ability to hear the melody of the future; faith is the ability to sing that song." Music Setting Copyright 2007 by David Will.

10 Closings (in honor of Roy Redman)

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As we part from here today,

Spirits, hearts restored, renewed,

Each now goes their separate way:

Walk in peace and fortitude.

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Carry the words of this day in your heart,

Carry the flame of our passion,

Give them to those you will meet and impart

Lessons of love and compassion.

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The world awaits us and our goals:

Compassion, equity and peace,

Remember justice in your souls,

Exhibit conscience in your deeds.

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The words of prophetic women and men,

The deeds for which they have been known,

Are waiting for us to claim as our own

Their truths, and their work to begin.

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Until we are gathered again, side by side,

May love walk with you every day,

Compassion companion you all through each night,

And peace be your life's only way.

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The interdependent web of life

Connects us as we now depart;

Woven with love and lacing each heart,

Unceasingly tensile and bright.

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Go now, and serve the world,

Show love through all you do.

Return to us again

Once more, and love anew.

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Joy has met us here today,

Love was in our midst;

Now it's time to lead the way:

Show the world what can be done

When we work for peace as one.

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Farewell, beloved company

Until once more again we see

Your faces, hear your news,

Be safe, our dear UUs.

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As our time together ends

And we start the week anew,

May the good we seek to do

Bind each heart to serve our friends,

Those unknown or old and dear,

All are welcomed by us here.

10 Prayer and Meditation Responses (in honor of Roy Redman)

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As it's spoken by our mouths

And heard by our ears,

Be it written on our hearts

And with actions sincere

May we bring Truth to all parts

North and East, and West and South.

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So may it be,

And ever may Truth flow,

Revealed for all to see,

For all who seek to know.

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Wisdom from the world's beliefs

Inspires in us an answering call,

Beckoning in leitmotifs:

"Welcome, seekers, one and all."

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Heed the guidance of reason

And beware idolatry;

Grant each Truth its due season,

And confirm its quality.

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Love's transforming power

Is witnessed here today;

Fragile as a flower,

Impossible to slay.

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Transcending mystery and wonder,

Affirmed in all who live;

Renew our spirits and ponder

The gifts we have to give.

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The sacred circle of life

Calls us to celebrate,

To join our hearts in the dance

With creatures small and great;

The circle of life of life teaches me

To savor all harmony.

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The spirit without the mind

Has no destiny;

The mind, lacking spirit, too

Drifts on endlessly.

But reason and faith combined

Seek, resolved, the True.

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Witness now the power

Of prophetic folk,

May we in this hour

Claim as ours their yoke.

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There are many Truths and views,

Each has something we can use;

May we find the Truths we seek

And be strengthened through the week.