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We have already missed too much beauty Our minds so mixed up with multi-tasking Toggling back and forth between hope, and fear worry, and wonder The sun rises with an insistent light and the morning breaks with the promise of the holy disguised as babies gurgling, and dogs groaning, snow covering up the just-shoveled walk and the flame that is kindled week upon week with promises to love, and to serve, and to dwell together in peace All that this day asks is that we risk showing up with our eyes open that we might bear witness to the whole of life the stories we ourselves carry the things we have tried to forget the times we have been wrong, or, we have been wronged To let in this much love, this much grace to know ourselves a part of this possibility to remember and to forgive, to heal and to be better. Come let us worship, together.

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Purchased this cycle with permission to copy pieces for choral use: 

https://jasonsheltonmusic.com/cycle-of-song-vol-2

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Composer
Jason Shelton
Lyricist
Gretchen Haley

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Theme(s)
Attention
Tradition(s)
Unitarian Universalism
Language(s)
English

Musicality

Instrumentation
Piano
Voicing
SAB
Rote
Solo

Music

Copy type
photocopy

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