Monthly Theme: Vision
Sermon Topic: A Vision in Formation
Choir: Unitarian Choir

“Acceptance”
Music: Daniel Gledhill
Text: Robert Frost

When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud
And goes down burning into the gulf below,
No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud
At what has happened. Birds, at least must know
It is the change to darkness in the sky.
Murmuring something quiet in her breast,
One bird begins to close a faded eye;
Or overtaken too far from his nest,
Hurrying low above the grove, some waif
Swoops just in time to his remembered tree.
At most he thinks or twitters softly, ‘Safe!
Now let the night be dark for all of me.
Let the night bee too dark for me to see
Into the future. Let what will be, be.’ 

“Be Thou My Vision”
Music: arr. Dan Forrest
Text: Traditional

Be Thou my Vision, O God of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art;
Thou my best thought by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.

Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word;
I ever with Thee, and Thou with me, God;
Thou my soul’s Shelter, and Thou my high Tower,
Raise Thou me heav’nward, O Power of my power.

4 Riches I heed not, nor world’s empty praise;
Thou mine inheritance, now and always;
Thou and Thou only, first in my heart,
Sovereign of heaven, my Treasure Thou art.

Sovereign of heaven, my victory won,
May I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heaven’s Sun,
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
Still be my vision, O Keeper of all.