25 November 2001 - 6:46 p.m. Whew! The services went well, even though Jason, Susan and I all had colds, and Tom was a last-minute replacement for the scheduled lay leader. People laughed in the right places, borrowed my copies of Kushner's essays and Dar's CD, came up afterwards and spilled out their own stories about being driven meshuggeneh by the holidays... Order of Service Sunday, November 25, 2001 Morning Songs #295 Sing Out Praises for the Journey [1] Look inside, your soul's the kindling #334 When Shall We Learn [2] Inviting the Bell - Tom Surface Prelude - "Gigue" (Handel) - Susan Snyder Opening Words - by Fra Giovanni - Peg Duthie [3] Chalice Lighting - Tom Surface Welcome and Announcements - Tom Surface Joys and Concerns - Jeany Martin Offertory - "Voluntary" (Samuel Jackson) - Susan Snyder Responsive Reading #489 - Peg Duthie When love is felt or fear is known, Music - "The Christians and the Pagans" by Dar Williams - Jason Shelton Meditation and Silence - Peg Duthie Heaven has assigned a role to each of us. It's the only one we're going to get. Sometimes we don't like our part. We want someone else's lines, costume, entrace. I, for instance, think I should have been assigned the role of starting quarterback for the San Francisco '49ers. Sermon - "The Patterns We Obey, The Patterns We May Choose" - Peg Duthie Hymn - #22 Dear Weaver of Our Lives' Design Chalice Extinguishing - Tom Surface Benediction - by W.H. Auden - Peg Duthie Yours the choice, to whom the gods awarded Postlude - "Festival Voluntary" (Cutler & Johnson) - Susan Snyder [1] Music by Henry Purcell, words by Mark M. DeWolfe (rev. Joyce Painter Rice). [2] The composer took the first two lines of the first stanza, the first two lines of the second stanza, the last four lines of the fourth stanza, the first two and last two lines of the last stanza. A clever abridgement! [3] "How did you get stuck with this?" my belle-mere demanded. "I wouldn't call it stuck," I told her, "it's going to be fun!" Which is why I volunteered to coordinate the service when our guest speaker arrangements didn't work out.
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