Taoism teaches that the lesson of survival, of keeping one's integrity in a time of disorder, is to be like water revealing the power of transformation and persistence.

Chalice Lighting Words Excerpt of a Hindu prayer, Read by Amy Rosebush
Song "Nothing But Peace Is Enough" Words and music by Jim Scott (From Singing the Living Tradition, Unitarian Universalist Association, Copyright  1993)
Keyboard Amy Rosebush
Voice and Percussion Stephen Downen
Message The Reverend Amy Kindred
Song "Filled With Loving Kindness" (From Singing the Journey, Unitarian Universalist Association, 2005. Music by Ian W. Riddell )  Stephen Downen provides a contemporary arrangement of a traditional Buddhist chant
Keyboard Amy Rosebush
Voice  and Strings Stephen Downen
Closing Words The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats,                                                       Read by Stephen Downen

*The story about the well digger is from Katha Sagar Ocean of Stories by Sarah Canover and Abhi Janamanchi, illustrated by Shanthi Chandrasekar