Our Chapter in the Unfolding Story (2/03/13)

23:39 – Selections from The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair’s Sunday Worship Service by Ms. Kimberly Johnson.

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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

“The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.”
–Zora Neale Hurston

“In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.”
–Alice Walker

“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
–Toni Morrison

PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS
“Nature,” by Henry David Thoreau
We’ve Been Here Before by Margaret Wheatley

SERMON
“Our Chapter in the Unfolding Story”
Ms. Kimberly Johnson

CLOSING WORDS

Liturgist: Cheryl Crawford

Please note: All sermons are copyrighted by the author.

For more information about The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair, please visit us at http://uumontclair.org.

Mother Nature’s Child (2/10/13)

24:58 – Selections from The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair’s Sunday Worship Service by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman.

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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
–Booker T. Washington

“I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now I was free. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.”
–Harriet Tubman

“Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, ‘I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I’m going to snow anyway.’”
–Maya Angelou

PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS
From the Book of Genesis
From an interview with children’s author Maurice Sendak by NPR host Terry Gross

SERMON
“Mother Nature’s Child”
Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

CLOSING WORDS

Liturgist: Cheryl Crawford

Please note: All sermons are copyrighted by the author.

For more information about The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair, please visit us at http://uumontclair.org.

We are the World (2/03/13)

24:01 – Selections from The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair’s Sunday Worship Service by Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman.

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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”
–Alice Walker

“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”
–George Washington Carver

“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
–Langston Hughes

PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS
“Nature,” by Henry David Thoreau
From the introduction to the essay, “Nature,” by Ralph Waldo Emerson

SERMON
“We are the World”
Rev. Charles Blustein Ortman

CLOSING WORDS

Liturgist: Cheryl Crawford

Please note: All sermons are copyrighted by the author.

For more information about The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair, please visit us at http://uumontclair.org.