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 Meg Barnhouse, Senior Minister at the First UU Church of Austin titled “Thank you, I’m Going Downhill”. First recorded on 11.18.2012. (World Gratitude Day, September 21). What are you grateful for on this Sunday, the day before World Gratitude Day? Rev. Meg Barnhouse shares her list with us.

UUFEC Order of Service

Opening Hymn #354
“We Laugh, We Cry”
words & music by Shelley Jackson Denham, Harmony by Betsy Jo Angebranndt.
Recorded by the Community Church of the Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist Virtual Chamber Choir. Glenn Mehrbach. Recorded 5.24.20

Welcoming Words
by Amanda Piburn

Chalice Lighting
“A Chalice Lighting for When Things Aren’t Okay,”
by Molly Brewer.
Read by Winky Sweet

“My beloved people
I cannot pretend,
And so I will not tell you ,
That everything is okay right now,
That there is no reason to be angry,
That you must be optimistic
Or at peace.
I cannot pretend these things,
And so I won’t tell them to you,
But now our chalice is lit,
And so all I ask in this moment is that we remember the words of Rebecca Parker,
‘There is love,
There is a love holding us ,
There is a love holding all.’
By the light of our chalice,
Let us rest in this love.”

A Time for All Ages
“A Story About Thankful Dogs,”
as told by Amy Weisberg

Sermon
“Thank you, I’m Going Downhill,”
prerecorded by Rev. Meg Barnhouse, Senior Minister at the UU Church of Austin

Extinguishing the Chalice
by Rev. Duke T. Gray.
Read by Winky Sweet

“The blessing of truth be upon us,
The power of love direct us and sustain us,
And may the peace of this
Community preserve our going
Out and our coming in.
From this time forth, until we meet again,”

Closing Hymn #128
“For All That is Our Life”
sung by Amy Shaub Maddox, Steve Day, and Linda Thompson of the Community Church of Chapel Hill UU. Music Director Glenn Mehrbach. Recorded on 5.24.20