Jay E. Abernathy, Jr.

Affirmations / Covenants / Doxologies

We affirm that love is our greatest purpose.

Ceremonies

All our lives we have been told to seek that which is good,

Closings

Let us be humble

Homilies

When we introduce ourselves to another person, we usually extend our hand and summarize ourselves with one word, usually our name.

Meditations

Let us seek the quiet and the calm

Openings

Let us seek the quiet and the calm

Readings

How can we begin to understand what hope and healing mean in the face of a deadly illness with no known cure?

Sermons

I recently attended a conference that turned out to be more like a retreat.

What a heady thing it is to feel that one is present at a turning point in history, even, perhaps, that the culmination of one's work or values, or longings has finally arrived.