Please join us at 10 AM this Sunday on the UUFEC Facebook Page and on the UUFEC website to watch a recorded message from Reverend Daniel Kanter, Senior Minister at the First UU Church of Dallas. First recorded at the First UU Church of Dallas on 5.24.20. What constitutes a miracle for you? Compare your list with that of Reverend Kanter’s

UUFEC Order of Service

September 13, 2020
10:00 a.m.

Opening Hymn #346
“Come Sing a Song with Me”
by Carolyn McDade (Video)

Welcome Words
by Amanda Piburn

Chalice Lighting
Read by Sarah Albano and Julian Albano

“Our Community Knows no Boundaries” by Rev. Nancy Reid McKee

We are not confined by the physical limits of wall
Or for that matter of what often binds us, restricts us
Holds us back.
We are freer than we know
When we release ourselves
And each other
From expectations
Of what is needed
For true community.
We are here
Together in space
I see you
I hear you
I love you.

A Time for All Ages
“Jonmy” as told by Amy Weisberg

Reading
“Miracles,” a poem by Walt Whitman

Read by Deborah Baker-Rian

Why, who makes much of a miracle?
As to me I know nothing else but miracles.
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward
The sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in
The edge of the water,
Or stand under the trees in the woods,
Or talk by day with any one I love, or
Sleep in the bed at night with anyone I love,
Or sit at table at dinner with the rest,
Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car,
Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon,
Or animals feeding in the fields,
Or birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air,
Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, of the stars shining so quiet and bright,
Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring;
These with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles,
The whole referring, yet each distinct and in its place.
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle,
Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same,
Every foot of the interior swarms with the same.
To me the sea is a continual miracle,
The fishes that swim – the rocks- the motion of the waves – the ships with men in them,
What stranger miracles are there?

Sermon
“Sustaining Miracles”
by Rev. Daniel Kanter,
Senior minister at the First UU Church of Dallas.

Chalice Extinguishing
Read by Sarah Albano and Julian Albano
by Robin F. Gray

“The flame is extinguished, but not our hope for the future, our courage in the face of crisis, or the love we share in all the world.”

Closing Hymn #389
“Gathered Here “
video sung by Jess Huettamen (You Tube)