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Prelude Roots and Wings by Elizabeth Harley Opening Words by Cliff Reed The Old Year and its turning is behind you. In the spareness and clarity of winter, see the promise of a New Year. Sense the possibilities forming within you, feel the stirring of life beneath your feet. The … Read more
Prelude Roots and Wings by Elizabeth Harley Opening Words A Season Not a Day by Cliff Reed (adapted) Christmas is a season, not a day – it isn’t over yet. It began when tills fell silent on Christmas Eve, and is ours now to reclaim. Let’s make it a time for our refreshment, … Read more
Prelude Roots and Wings by Elizabeth Harley Opening Words by Linda Hart The travellers had come a long way, and had a long way yet to go. Unable to come off the donkey without her husband’s assistance, and the grace of a large stone, still she came down, one hand to her back feeling … Read more
Prelude Roots and Wings by Elizabeth Harley Opening Words by Evelyn Ryder In a world free of greed and hatred, I see the peace of which I dream; Hands once filled with weapons Now held out in faith and trust. In a world free of fear and prejudice, I see the love … Read more
Prelude Roots and Wings by Elizabeth Harley Opening Words by Francis Terry We have been brought to where we now are, with hearts sensitive to sympathy, and still reaching out in pursuit of happiness. Therefore, Creative Spirit, we trust ourselves to you for the time to come, and ask you to fulfil our … Read more
Our new National EC Link is Rev Jo James, of Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds. The 2023 AGM will be held on Saturday 25th March 2023, at The Great Meeting House Unitarian Church in Coventry. Please add the date to your diaries. MU Now: the deadline for the Winter issue is 6th January 2023. Please send … Read more
(my apologies if the quality of sound is not so good as usual – we had a terrific rainstorm half way through recording the service!) Prelude Roots and Wings by Elizabeth Harley Opening Words by Ellen Fay It is the Winter season of the year,. dark and chilly. Perhaps it is a winter … Read more
Prelude Roots and Wings by Elizabeth Harley Opening Words by Ant Howe In this sacred gathering may the joyful find space to praise…. May the inquirers feel safe to question….. May the lonely find the touch of a friend…… May the singers be given a tune to sing….. May the lost discover the … Read more
Two Minute Silence Our service this week will begin with the customary Two Minute Silence, in honour and remembrance of those who have laid down their lives in war. [silence] They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At … Read more
Prelude Roots and Wings by Elizabeth Harley Opening Words We meet on holy ground by Richard S. Gilbert We meet on holy ground, For that place is holy where we meet one another. Where lives touch, where love moves, Where hope stirs, there is holy ground. How much we need this moment … Read more