“Litany of the Holy Spirit” – December 1st, 2024

Rev. Sophia preaching, with Laura Horn, Charlyn Bethell, and Guy Urban.

Join us for the first Sunday of Advent where we will contemplate what this season means for us as Unitarian Universalists. Our month’s theme is Presence, and we might ask ourselves just what are we trying to be present for? Come to church and ask this good question in the presence of friends, beauty, and love. Worship is where we slow down, breath and renew our spirits–join us in trying for this won’t you?

Reading: “What It Looks Like To Us and the Words We Use,” by Ada Limon

All these great barns out here in the outskirts,
black creosote boards knee-deep in the bluegrass.
They look so beautifully abandoned, even in use.
You say they look like arks after the sea’s
dried up, I say they look like pirate ships,
and I think of that walk in the valley where
J said, You don’t believe in God? And I said,
No. I believe in this connection we all have
to nature, to each other, to the universe.
And she said, Yeah, God. And how we stood there,
low beasts among the white oaks, Spanish moss,
and spider webs, obsidian shards stuck in our pockets,
woodpecker flurry, and I refused to call it so.
So instead, we looked up at the unruly sky,
its clouds in simple animal shapes we could name
though we knew they were really just clouds—
disorderly, and marvelous, and ours.