“Invite More, Include More, Imagine More” – February 23, 2025

Rev. Sophia preaching, with Carole Katz, John Portz, Eileen Ryan, Charlyn Bethell, and Guy Urban. 

Let us draw from the wisdom of the Earth, those who have come before us, and our larger faith’s practice and promise to help us see the powerful Good News that abounds here at First Parish of Watertown. How are you caught up in it? Come to church this Sunday and find out! We will also sing Melanie DeMore’s Lead With Love again–let us feel in our bodies the Joyful Noise that is this blessed community gathered for Sunday worship and dreaming big.

Reading: “This is what was bequeathed us” by Gregory Orr 

This is what was bequeathed us:
This earth the beloved left
And, leaving,
Left to us.
No other world
But this one:
Willows and the river
And the factory
With its black smokestacks.
No other shore, only this bank
On which the living gather.
No meaning but what we find here.
No purpose but what we make.
That, and the beloved’s clear instructions:
Turn me into song; sing me awake.