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Opening Words

Carl G Seaburg

Let there be joy in our coming together this morning.

Let there be joy in our coming together this morning.
Let there be truth heard in the words we speak
     and the songs we sing.
Let there be help and healing for our disharmony and despair.
Let there be silence for the voice within us and beyond us.
Let there be joy in our coming together.

Source: 1997 UUMA Worship Materials Collection; Published in modified form in Rejoice Together: Prayers, Meditations, and Other Readings for Family, Individual, and Small-Group Worship, ed. by Helen R. Pickett, Boston: Skinner House Books, 1995, 30.

Copyright: The author has given Unitarian Universalist Association member congregations permission to reprint this piece for use in public worship. Any reprints must acknowledge the name of the author.

Last updated on Friday, April 18, 2008.

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