REFLECTIONS

We come together in fellowship. We are apart but united in loving
commitment to one another. Let us circle this globe, our fragile, island
home, in worship.


We summon ourselves from the demands and delights of
the daily round
from the dirty dishes and unwaxed floors,
from the unmowed grass and untrimmed bushes,
from all incompletenesses and not-yet startednesses,
from the unholy and unresolved.

We summon oursleves to attend to our vision
of peace and justice,
of cleanliness and health,
of the lovely and the holy,
of who we are and what we can do.

We summon the power of tradition and the exhilaration
of newness
the wisdom of the ages and the knowing of the very young
We summon beauty, eloquence, poetry, music to be the
bearers of our dreams.

We would open our eyes,
our ears,
our minds,
our hearts
to the amplest dimensions of life.

We rejoice in the manifold promises and possibilities.

Gorden B. McKeeman
from Rejoice Together, collected by Helen R. Pickett
Skinner House Books, Boston