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Opening Words

Jane E. Mauldin
Also appropriate as Litanies

For our community gathered here, for the spirit that called us together and drew us to this place:

For our community gathered here, for the spirit that called us together and drew us to this place:

We give thanks this day.

For moments we have shared with others; for times when we have reached out across barriers of distance and fear; for times when others have reached out to us; for moments when we have discovered another along our path:

We give thanks this day.

For this community of celebration and growth, introspection and solitude, and for those moments of "that peace which passes all understanding":

We give thanks this day.

For our gathering together out of distant places; for our weaving together out of many separate selves this hour of celebration and worship:

We give thanks this day.

Source: 1997 UUMA Worship Materials Collection; adapted CLW

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Last updated on Friday, April 18, 2008.