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Order of Worship
Presented by the KMUCC Green Team
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WELCOME
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GATHERING MUSIC
Lilly Breshears
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Silence your phone
pour a cup of water, tea, or coffee
light a candle
breathe.
CALL TO WORSHIP *
Chris Christensen and Carolyn Rux
When astronauts first showed us our planet from the moon, they changed our perspective and our theology forever.
Turning and turning, our pale blue globe burns bright in the black spaces of eternity.
The Earth is the Lord’s, and all that is in it – all life embodied in the only home we know.
God created life in the oceans, and continues to nourish it with nutrients from the mountains.
Trace the course of a river to its source; stand among the mountains and marvel.
Who would dare defile this paradise?
Jubilation, exaltation, celebration, one and all!
Within the womb of the heavens, the Earth leaps to praise its Creator.
As the pearl necklace of planets swing around the sun, as the shining oceans embrace the continents, so do all living things praise the Giver of Life.
For God expressed a thought, and the thought took life.
God wanted to speak, and the Word became flesh and lived among us.
In that Word was holiness, the spirit that makes every life more than the sum of its chemicals.
From the tiniest plankton in the sea to the great whales, from the ants that burrow in the dust to the eagle that soars in the heavens – all owe their existence to God.
Fire and hail, snow and frost, sun and drought, wind and rain
– in God, all things work together for good.
Mighty mountains compost into rich soil;
fruit trees and maples aerate the atmosphere.
The dung beetle depends on the waste of cattle;
Birds and wind currents carry seeds to new orchards.
Not one part is cut off from God’s energy;
Everything has been equally created to live interdependently.
God scatters new life even among weeds and thistles;
And all Creation responds with rejoicing.
* From Psalm 24 and 148, “Earth-rise” & “God’s Profligate Generosity”
Everyday Psalms by James Taylor Copyright © 2005, Wood Lake Books