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Leader: I am blind. Congregation: I can see. I will tell you if a speaker uses a hand gesture. Leader: I am hard of hearing. Congregation: I can hear. I will ask people to use the microphone. Leader: I am too young to vote. Congregation: I vote. I will vote for the good of the community, not my selfish interests. Leader: I use a wheelchair. Congregation: I walk. I will not begrudge the extra expense my church, my town or my county incurs for accessibility. Leader: I am a slave to alcohol. Congregation: I am not. You will have to free yourself, but I will serve you apple juice without question. Leader: I am a slave to drugs. Congregation: I am not. You will have to free yourself, but I will speak for treatment instead of jail. Leader: I am alone. Congregation: You are not. Take my hand. Leader and Congregation: We help each other out of common humanity. We help each other in the hope others will help us, when we become weak or frail. We help each other out of respect for the divine spark that burns within each of us.
* "Comfort Me", lyrics and music copyright by Mimi Bornstein, MBornstein@verizon.net, Hymn #1002 in the UU hymnal "Singing the Journey". Lyrics reprinted with permission: Comfort me, oh my soul Litany written by Ted Pack, who notes: The hymn is bald without the music and the repetition; each verse repeats the first phrase ("Comfort me", "Sing with me", etc.) three times, and "oh my soul" twice. The phrase "Speak for me" is as simple and eloquent a call to act for social justice as I've ever heard. This went through a dozen versions. In some earlier ones the Congregation says "I am not. I will {speak for | comfort} you." each time. I decided that was too obvious. Use the navigation bar on the left, or go directly to the sermon from 25 November 2007, What is a Devout Unitarian Universalist?
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Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Stanislaus County 2172 Kiernan Avenue Modesto, California (209) 545-1837 Mailing Address: PO Box 1000, Salida, CA 95368 (We have no mail service on Kiernan; please use the PO Box.) |
Visits since 17 Apr 1999. Page updated 17 Dec 2007 |
We are the only UU congregation in Stanislaus county. We serve Ceres, Denair, Escalon, Hickman, Hughson, Keyes, Modesto, Oakdale, Patterson, Ripon, Riverbank, Salida, Turlock and Waterford.