What Are You Doing With All Those Gifts? November 5, 2023 Rev. Rosemary Morrison, Service Leader Jeff Bisanz

Order of Service

Chimes

Welcome, Land Acknowledgement, and Announcements

Prelude

Opening Words

Chalice Lighting Choose to Bless the World by Rev. Rebecca Ann Parker

Your gifts—whatever you discover them to be—can be used to bless or curse the world.The mind's power,the strength of the hands,the reaches of the heart,the gift of speaking, listening, imagining, seeing, waiting.

What will you do with your gifts?Choose to bless the world.The choice to bless the world is more than an act of will…It is an act of recognition,a confession of surprise,a grateful acknowledgmentthat in the midst of a broken worldunspeakable beauty, grace and mystery abide.Hymn 1019 Everything Possible

Time for All AgesThe Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig

Sharing Our Abundance Hymn 402 From You I Receive (Sing 2X) ]

Service Leader Reflection

Hymn 1009 When Our Heart is in a Holy Place

Message What Are You Doing with All Those Gifts

Meditation Meditation Hymn 1053 How Could Anyone

Candles of Joy and Concern

Hymn 110 This Little Light of Mine

Extinguishing the Flame May You Be Filled by Eric Williams

\May you be filled with the blessings of this covenanted community.May you carry them with you as you depart from here.May you discover the places in the world where these blessings are needed.May you have the courage to share them.May there be an open place within you to receive the blessings of the people whom you will meet along the way.Benediction

Carry the Flame

Postlude