Rev. Sophia, with Djalai Babazadeh, David Morrison, Charlyn Bethell and Guy Urban.
Most of the time being inclusive doesn’t happen in grand ways, but in small acts of kindness and care. We can all participate in this, can’t we? David Morrison will tell us a personal story about small act of kindness, and we will take part in a ritual that will help us find meaning in how we offer and receive tiny, beautiful things. Your children are welcome to stay for the whole worship service however fun activities will also be offered downstairs. Now is not the time to flit away from us–come renew your Spirit at church!
Reading: “Fortunate,” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Tonight, I want to break into the fortune cookie factory
armed with millions of tiny rectangular papers
that I’d surreptitiously slip into the thin folded wafers.
You will say five nice things in the next hour, says one.
And, You’ll bake something nice for your neighbor.
Every fortune will predict a generosity of spirit.
A grudge you’ve been gripping will disappear.
Gratitude for the smallest things will flood you.
And on the back, it will acknowledge that to make
any number lucky, you’ll simply write a check
using that number to a local charity—
the more zeroes you add to the number,
the luckier that number will be.
Or, perhaps a better idea:
fill each cookie with a blank slip of paper—
some small scrap of potential that invites every person
to write their own fortune, lets them feel
like the author of their own destiny. In fact, here.
Here’s a pen. And a very small white page.
You don’t even need the cookie.
Reverend Sophia Lyons
Rev. Sophia is committed to radical welcome and spreading the good news that is our bold Unitarian Universalist faith. Some of her areas of interest include interfaith partnerships, addictions ministry, spiritual direction, and working towards collective liberation for all. Rev. Sophia aspires to live her life and fulfill her ministry guided by spiritual seeking, big love, and the seven principles of Unitarian Universalism.