“Direct Experience of that Transcending Mystery and Wonder” – September 29, 2024

Rev. Sophia preaching, with Phoebe Eckart-Lee, Laura Horn, Bunny Major, Marilyn Boenau, Charlyn Bethell, Guy Urban and our FPW Choir.

We are blessed to have a variety of voices in our worship service this Sunday! The Sufi Mystics believe that our lives long to bring us into union with God. How might we UU’s draw from this theology in meaningful ways? As we close out our month’s theme of Invitation, let us all consider how we open our doors and hearts to transcending Mystery and Wonder. We will also bless the ministry of Phoebe Eckart-Lee, our choir will sing, and Bunny Major will offer her Journey of Faith. Renew your spirit, open your heart, rest in the comforts of friendship–come to church!

Reading: A Moment of Happiness, by Sufi poet and mystic Jalaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks

A moment of happiness,
you and I sitting on the verandah,
apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.
We feel the flowing water of life here,
you and I, with the garden’s beauty
and the birds singing.
The stars will be watching us,
and we will show them
what it is to be a thin crescent moon.
You and I unselfed, will be together,
indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.
The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar
as we laugh together, you and I.
In one form upon this earth,
and in another form in a timeless sweet land.