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As promised, here are the materials for this cast:
For Silent Reflection:
“Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.”― Lemony Snicket
Poetry Selection
Well wouldn't it figure that last week I used the Mary Oliver poem Thirst! Talk about a missed opportunity for today, if you already where our scripture is going. Instead, I'll use Mary Oliver's "Climbing the Chagrin River," p. 75 in American Primitive, 1983:
We enter
the green river,
heron harbor,
mud-basin lined
with snagheaps, where turtles
sun themselves--we push
through the falling
silky weight
striped warm and cold
bounding down
through the black flanks
of wet rocks--we wade
under hemlock
and white pine--climb
stone steps into
the timeless castles
of emerald eddies,
swirls, channels
cold as ice tumbling
out of a white flow--
sheer sheets
flying off rocks,
frivolous and lustrous,
skirting the secret pools--
cradles
full of the yellow hair
of last year's leaves
where grizzled fish
hang halfway down,
like tarnished swords,
while around them
fingerlings sparkle
and descend,
nails of light
in the loose
racing waters.
Call to Worship
Leader: The prophet asks: Can our soul-weary bones live again?
People: O God, you know!Leader: We ask: Can we dance again after mourning, loss and grief?
People: O God, you know!Leader: The gift is sure and unmistakable:
People: God’s breath poured out as new life for weary souls!Leader: Let us celebrate the gift of God’s new life,
People: And come to worship God in laughter and dancing!
For Silent Reflection:
“Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the nation rots.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day
Scripture Reading of John 19:27-28, from the NRSV, read by Mireille Eastman:
After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfil the scripture), ‘I am thirsty.’ A jar full of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the wine, he said, ‘It is finished.’ Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
For Silent Reflection:
“Your home is living space, not storage space.” ― Francine Jay