Welcome and Announcements                                                               Rev. Amy Zucker

                                                                Morgenstern

Our Justice Partner for October is South Bay Sanctuary Covenant (SBSC), an interfaith, non-partisan organization of churches and individuals in the Bay Area. The group is concerned with peace, justice and liberation for the people of Central America and for the refugees who have fled these areas. UUCPA was a founding member of SBSC in 1992, and has remained involved ever since.

NEW: Taproot: A Monthly Gathering for BIPoC Unitarian Universlists Taproot is a space for, and created by, Unitarian Universalist congregants and leaders nationwide identifying as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Its organizing pillars are Rest & Renewal; Analysis Building; and Leadership Development. Register now to join the Thursday, October 14 meeting.

Coming up today (all are online-only unless another location is listed):

Healing the Divide 1 - 2:30 pm

Harmonic Circle 2 - 4 pm

There is no OWL this afternoon.

Senior High Youth Group – SHYG 6:30 - 7:30 pm, UUCPA

and this week:

Brown Bag Books: First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents Tuesday, 10/5 12 - 2 pm

Sacred Text Reading Group Wednesday, 10/6 12 - 1 pm,

By Your Side Singers Wednesday, 10/6 7:30 - 9 pm, Room 10

Strategies of the Civil Rights Movement: Lessons for Our Time Wednesday, 10/6 7:30 - 9 pm

2nd Friday Bridge Club 10/8 6:30 - 10:30 pm, Fireside Room

Sacred Text Reading Group Saturday, 10/9 4 - 5 pm

Humanists at UUCPA Saturday, 10/9 6 - 8:40 pm, Fireside Room

Forum – Space debris – low orbit Sunday, 10/10 9 am - 10:15 am

Sunday School for children and youth preK through gr 8 10/10 9:30  - 10:30 am, UUCPA

Sunday Service 10/10 11 am - 12 pm

Discovering UUCPA Sunday, 10/10 1 - 2 pm

Harmonic Circle Sunday, 10/10 2 - 4 pm

OWL Grades 7-9 Sunday, 10/10 3:30 - 5 pm, UUCPA

Senior High Youth Group – SHYG Sunday, 10/10 6:30 - 7:30 pm, UUCPA

Meetings are also open to all who would like to learn about how things are organized and run at UUCPA:

CYRE Committee Meeting Tuesday, 10/5 7:15 - 9 pm

Green Sanctuary Committee Meeting Sunday, 10/10 12 - 1 pm

Action Council Meeting Sunday, 10/10 7:30 - 8:30 pm

Prelude                              Placid Lake, Florence Beatrice Price                Veronika Agranov-Dafoe

Chalice Lighting               Blessing that Bears the Wind, the Wave, Jan Richardson                                                                                                                                  

Centering Words                               Emmanuel Swedenborg                                             

Song                    For the Beauty of the Earth (No. 21 in the gray hymnal; adapted)

words: Folliot S. Pierpont, music: Conrad Kocher (public domain)

For the beauty of the earth, for the splendor of the skies,

For the love which from our birth over and around us lies:

Source of all, to thee we raise this, our hymn of grateful praise.

For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind’s delight,

For the mystic harmony linking sense to sound and sight:

Source of all, to thee we raise this, our hymn of grateful praise.

For the wonder of each hour of the day and of the night,

hill and vale and tree and flower, sun and moon and stars of light:

Source of all, to thee we raise this, our hymn of grateful praise.

For the joy of human care, [neighbor, stranger,] parent, child,

For the kinship we all share, for all gentle thoughts and mild:

Source of all, to thee we raise this, our hymn of grateful praise.         

Story                                The Stream Called to the Sea                Amy Morgenstern

a Sufi Muslim tale    

Anthem                                                Seal Lullaby                        UUCPA Adult Choir

Homily                                        Nothing Unconnected                   Amy Morgenstern

Song                                                          Swimming to the Other Side

© Pat Humphries; used by permission

Chorus:         We are living 'neath the great Big Dipper

                     We are washed by the very same rain

                     We are swimming in this stream together

                     Some in power and some in pain

                     We can worship this ground we walk on

                     Cherishing the beings that we live beside

                     Loving spirits will live forever

                     We're all swimming to the other side

I am alone, and I am searching

Hungering for answers in my time

I am balanced at the brink of wisdom

I'm impatient to receive a sign

I move forward with my senses open

Imperfection, it be my crime

In humility I will listen

We're all swimming to the other side                      

We are living 'neath the great Big Dipper

                     We are washed by the very same rain

                     We are swimming in this stream together

                     Some in power and some in pain

                     We can worship this ground we walk on

                     Cherishing the beings that we live beside

                     Loving spirits will live forever

                     We're all swimming to the other side

On this journey through thoughts and feelings

Binding intuition, my head, my heart

I am gathering the tools together

I'm preparing to do my part

All of those who have come before me

Band together and be my guide

Loving lessons that I will follow

We're all swimming to the other side (No Chorus)

When we get there we'll discover

All of the gifts we've been given to share

Have been with us since life's beginning

And we never noticed they were there

We can balance at the brink of wisdom

Never recognizing that we've arrived

Loving spirits will live together

We're all swimming to the other side.

We are living 'neath the great Big Dipper

                     We are washed by the very same rain

                     We are swimming in this stream together

                     Some in power and some in pain

                     We can worship this ground we walk on

                     Cherishing the beings that we live beside

                     Loving spirits will live forever

                     We're all swimming to the other side.

Water Communion                                                                        All

Offering                                   Deep Pool, Florence Beatrice Price        Veronika Agranov-Dafoe

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Thank you!

Song                                                      Blue Boat Home (No. 1064 in teal hymnal)

           words: Peter Mayer; music: Rowland Hugh Prichard, adapted by Peter Mayer

Though below me, I feel no motion standing on these mountains and plains,

Far away from the rolling ocean still my dry land heart can say:

I’ve been sailing all my life now, never harbor or port have I known.

The wide universe is the ocean I travel, and the earth is my blue boat home.

Sun my sail and moon my rudder as I ply the starry sea,

Leaning over the edge in wonder, casting questions into the deep.

Drifting here with my ship’s companions, all we kindred pilgrim souls,

Making our way by the lights of the heavens in our beautiful blue boat home.

I give thanks to the waves up holding me, hail the great winds urging me on,

Greet the infinite sea before me, sing the sky my sailor’s song:

I was born up on the fathoms, never harbor or port have I known.

The wide universe is the ocean I travel, and the earth is my blue boat home.

Chalice Extinguishing                                                         

Postlude                                 Bayou Dance, Florence Beatrice Price        Veronika Agranov-Dafoe

Benediction                                                                            All

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Go out into the world in peace

Be of good courage

Hold fast to what is good

Return no one evil for evil

Strengthen the faint-hearted

Support the weak

Help the suffering

Rejoice in beauty

Speak love with word and deed

Honor all beings.

Music Director: Bruce Olstad                                 Pianist: Veronika Agranov-Dafoe

Special music: Veronika Agranov-Dafoe

Livestreaming, tech support, and online community creation: Greg Becker, Tim and Maribea Berry, Heather Chen, Mark Erickson, Megan Fazio, Castor Fu, Rev. Dan Harper, Bill Hilton, Chris Jacobi, Christopher Kan, Paul Kostka, Steve Ludington, Kevin Ma, Bruce Olstad, William Phelps, Ann Zeise. Bruce Olstad creates the videos for the anthems and hymns each week.