Sunday, November 5, 2017
Monthly Theme: Abundance
Sermon Topic:
Choir: Unitarian Choir
I Should Be Glad
Music: Susan LaBarr
Text: Sara Teasdale
I should be glad of loneliness
And hours that go on broken wings,
A thirsty body, a tired heart
And the unchanging ache of things,
And hours that go on broken wings,
A thirsty body, a tired heart
And the unchanging ache of things,
If I could make a single song
As lovely and as full of light,
As hushed and brief as a falling star
On a winter night.
As lovely and as full of light,
As hushed and brief as a falling star
On a winter night.
The Peace of Wild Things
Music: Rachel DeVore Fogarty
Text: Wendell Barry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.