• Altar or centering table
• Cloth for covering altar or centering table
• Chalice, candle and lighter or LED battery-operated candle
• Handout 1, Giving Life the Shape of Justice
• Copies of the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook Singing the Living Tradition
• Optional: Small votive candle in holder
• Optional: Taper candle in candlestick
• Optional: A recording of "Spirit of Life" and a music player

• Review and photocopy Handout 1.
• Prepare the altar or centering table with the cloth you have brought, a chalice and candle, a votive candle, a taper candle, and matches or a lighter. If you are using an LED battery-operated candle, place it in the chalice.
• Gather copies of Singing the Living Tradition, enough for all participants. Obtain large print and/or braille copies for participants who need them.
• Optional: Light the votive candle in advance and place the taper nearby so that chalice lighter can use the taper to carry the flame to the chalice.
• Optional: Arrange for musical accompaniment or set up music player.

Offer these words of welcome:

Welcome to this program on Unitarian Universalist spirituality as expressed in our lives in the world. The peace, liberty and justice we want is an expression of our spirituality. Our spiritual lives can support us in being who we want to be in the world. Our lives make a difference in shaping justice and love. Unitarian Universalist spirituality calls us to participation and involvement, sustains us for living lives of truth and love, and nourishes our hope and our joy.

Invite a participant to light the chalice as you lead the group in reciting the unison chalice-lighting words.

Distribute Handout 1 and invite participants to read silently along with you as you read aloud the Unitarian Universalist Principle and Source that this workshop highlights.

Invite participants to share their names. Invite them to reflect on the news of the past week and briefly share something that made them think about justice or injustice in the world.

Explain that this workshop focuses on the line "giving life the shape of justice."

Invite participants to rise in body or spirit and sing "Spirit of Life" by Carolyn McDade, Hymn 123 in Singing the Living Tradition.