A beautiful Unitarian Universalist hymn - #1 in the older of the two current UU hymnals "Singing the Living Tradition"
A beautiful sentiment that Pam and I have engaged as we look to a place in the world where the walls that define a church or a congregation may not only be the long entrusted familiar ones. What if church looks beyond the beautiful edifices of stained glass - what if church is also the local coffee house where poets and refugees sit together? What if church is that place - where ever it might be - that allows us to change, that demands us to be transformed, and that requires us to be our best?
What if church today is found in that place?
Why Church?
To remember…
That our bones are grown up from the dirt of this earth
That our breath is the gift of life breathing us into existence
That our hearts beat with the pulse and rhythm of an eternity we only vaguely recognize
That our voices make audible the songs of the universe
Why Church?
To remember…
That I am a unique and precious expression of the universe
That this reality in which I live and breathe both distracts and reveals
That my deep and truest self is the only thing worth searching out and finding
That in the offering of self I come most fully alive
Why Church?
To remember…
That one is not a whole number
That community gives us roots and wings
That strength comes from relationship and mutuality
That we know life in and through one another
Why Church?
To remember…
Spirit
Breath
Life
Love Why church?
To remember...
- pmr
May nothing evil cross between you and those wall that support your journey.
words by Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) music by Robert N Quaile (1867-?)
A beautiful sentiment that Pam and I have engaged as we look to a place in the world where the walls that define a church or a congregation may not only be the long entrusted familiar ones. What if church looks beyond the beautiful edifices of stained glass - what if church is also the local coffee house where poets and refugees sit together? What if church is that place - where ever it might be - that allows us to change, that demands us to be transformed, and that requires us to be our best?
What if church today is found in that place?
Why Church?
To remember…
That our bones are grown up from the dirt of this earth
That our breath is the gift of life breathing us into existence
That our hearts beat with the pulse and rhythm of an eternity we only vaguely recognize
That our voices make audible the songs of the universe
Why Church?
To remember…
That I am a unique and precious expression of the universe
That this reality in which I live and breathe both distracts and reveals
That my deep and truest self is the only thing worth searching out and finding
That in the offering of self I come most fully alive
Why Church?
To remember…
That one is not a whole number
That community gives us roots and wings
That strength comes from relationship and mutuality
That we know life in and through one another
Why Church?
To remember…
Spirit
Breath
Life
Love Why church?
To remember...
- pmr
May nothing evil cross between you and those wall that support your journey.
words by Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) music by Robert N Quaile (1867-?)
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