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“The soul can split the sky in two

And let the face of God shine through”

–Edna St. Vincent Millay

A Prayer for Ukraine

Exodus 34:29-35

Luke 9:28-36

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“Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.”

― Wendell Berry

A Prayer for Ukraine

1 Corinthians 1:18-24

Luke 6:27-38

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“Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.” –Thomas Merton

1 Corinthians 12:12-31a

John 17:20-23

Special thanks to our new Interim Director of Music Raymond Buttero for the organ music this week.

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“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”

--The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Matthew 5:38-48

Special thanks to our new Interim Director of Music Raymond Buttero and to Deborah Johnson and Sarah Whitehead for lending their voices to this week's service.

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"“How about infant baptism? Shouldn't you wait until the child grows up enough to know what's going on?...

When it comes to the forgiving and transforming love of God, one wonders if the six-week-old screecher knows all that much less than the archbishop of Canterbury about what's going on.”

–Frederick Buechner

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Genesis 1:1-5

Matthew 3:13-17

Special thanks to our new Interim Director of Music Raymond Buttero and to Sarah Whitehead for lending her voice to this week's service.

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"You do not have to be good.

You do no have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you about mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prayer and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things."

- Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

This week we welcome Jeremy Langill, our new Director of Faith Formation and Outreach, to the pulpit for the first time.

Proverbs 9:1-6

John 6:51-58

Special thanks to Nancy Nicholson, our guest organist this week.

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Psalm 107:23-32

John 6:15-21

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We gratefully recognize the talents of the Spindle Rock River Rats who played for us this morning.

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Gracious God, it would have been enough if you had given us life and breath,

but you also gave us hearts to love and hands to build and pray and hold each other.

You gave us imagination and ingenuity.

You gave us minds to choose and to perceive and to dream.

You gave us senses-- to taste and feel and see and smell and hear.

You gave us this earth with oceans and mountains, season and rhythms, dawnings and sunsets.

It would have been enough if you had given us life and breath, God, but you have given us far more, always abundantly more.

You gave us Your love and Your presence, Your Spirit to guide us,

And You gave us Your Son, Jesus, the bread of heaven. Amen.

Ephesians 3:14-21

Mark 6:35-44

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We gratefully recognize the talents of Sue Rousseau who filled on organ this morning for us.