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David Glasgow:
Well good morning,

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Unitarian Universalist
Association.

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Is your mind, by any chance,
stayed on freedom this morning?

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Let's get our souls moving with
some wonderful African American

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spiritual music.

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Join us, raise your voices.

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Don't be afraid to
move a little bit

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as we sing together,
get some juices flowing.

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[SINGING] Could I get that chord
again, Wendyl, my head is gone.

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[MUSIC - "OH, I WOKE UP THIS
 MORNING"]

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Speaker 1: Can I have an amen?

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Rev. Tom Schade: Good morning.

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Good morning.

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Somewhere in an alternate
universe it's the weekend.

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It's a day for sleeping in.

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It's a day for house
chores and errands.

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For some it's eventually
a day for leisure,

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a day not in school
for the young.

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For others it's another
and even busier work day.

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And for some
ministers the cursor

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blinks in the corner
of a blank screen.

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But for us here
in this huge room

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we share so far from
sunlight and fresh air

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it is another day
of being together,

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another day of sharing
and teaching and learning.

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Another day of doing the work of
religious leadership together.

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Preparing ourselves, preparing
ourselves to reach out with

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love to those who
hunger for affirmation

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who await an
encouraging word, who

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need our compassion
and our solidarity.

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We gather in
worship this morning

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before we turn to our
labors, to be inspired

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by the wisdom of our
tradition, to be grounded

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in the gravity of the
work we are called to do.

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And to be lifted up by our
shared hope and resolution.

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We gather in worship to
hear the stories of a few

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and to reflect on
our common struggle.

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Come, come let this moment to
be one of wonder and power.

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Let us worship together.

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Speaker 1: We gather to worship
because we believe in freedom.

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Because we believe that the
world can be a better place.

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And that It will
be a better place

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sooner if we work
together to make it so.

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We gather to worship
because we wish

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for a world of universal
justice and peace.

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And because we share the belief
of songwriters Billy Taylor

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and Dick Dallas, that when we
work together in love wishes

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come true.

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[MUSIC - "I WISH I KNEW HOW IT
 WOULD FEEL TO BE FREE"]

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Ms. Kim Hampton: Holy is the
flame that each one carries.

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The living unique flying
of experience and truth.

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Holy, too, is the chalice that
holds the gathered fire, where

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one is all, and all is one,
and none are ever lost.

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Rev. Peter Boullata: As a gay
youth coming out in the 1980s

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it felt like there was no
place to be all of who I was.

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No space in which
I could even begin

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to imagine who I could be.

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With few role models
in the culture

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at large and without access
to the kinds of social spaces

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that adult gay men inhabited,
there was nowhere to go.

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It was difficult to
imagine a future at a time

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when that HIV/AIDS
epidemic was affecting

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large numbers of
men who loved men.

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There was a pervasive
nostalgia for a time that was.

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For previous eras of gay male
life that seemed more free,

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and it was for
this that I longed.

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Knowing that a
fulfilled past could

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be a model for a
fulfilling future.

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Imagining a time before
the rise of patriarchy,

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before the disavowal of the
sacred function of gender

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non-conforming and
same sex loving men

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was a way to imagine the future.

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The work of Utopian feminists
and radical gay liberationists

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set the tone, as in this reading
by Monique [INAUDIBLE] from her

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text [FOREIGN LANGUAGE].

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There was a time when
you were not a slave.

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Remember that.

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You walked alone,
full of laughter.

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You bathed bare-bellied.

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You say you have lost
all recollection of it.

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Remember.

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You say there are no words
to describe this time.

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You say it does not exist.

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But remember.

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Make an effort to remember
or, failing that, invent.

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Speaker 2: I grew up
in a religious family.

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In many ways I've
always considered

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myself more religious
than spiritual, at least

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in how those terms are
thrown around in these times.

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For the longest time I
ignored the little voice.

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Many of you might know
that little voice.

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That little voice that
calls you to something

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bigger than yourself.

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That voice that calls you to
something greater than you

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ever imagined.

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But as brother James Baldwin
tells us in Nothing Personal,

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nothing is fixed.

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Forever and forever and
forever it is not fixed.

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The earth is always shifting.

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The light is always changing.

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The water does not cease
to grind down the rock.

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Generations do not
cease to be born.

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And we are responsible
to them because we

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are the only
witnesses they have.

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The sea rises, the light fails.

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Lovers cling to each other.

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And children cling to us.

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The moment we cease
to hold each other,

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the moment we break faith with
one another, the sea engulfs us

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and the light goes out.

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Nothing is fixed.

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Nothing.

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Most definitely
love is not fixed.

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No matter how far
one might try to run

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from both, that little
voice and from love,

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it, or rather they,
will catch you.

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And they will bring you home.

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They will change you.

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They will show you that,
while nothing being fixed

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might look like
nothing but chaos,

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in reality it means
that we are growing

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into more fully human beings.

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This is the process
of a lifetime.

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It is the process
of generations.

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And it is the
responsibility of all of us

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because if one person or
generation stops loving,

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or becomes fixed, that truly
is the beginning of the end.

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David Glasgow: Todd, if we
could get a little extra piano

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in the vocal monitors,
that would be helpful.

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Our next song, like so many in
the African American tradition,

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reflects a hopeful optimism
in the justice leaning

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of the universes moral arc.

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And the stubborn refusal
to relent in the work

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we do to bend that arc.

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Would you rise with
us in body or spirit

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and join us in singing.

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[MUSIC - "I'M ON MY WAY"]

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Mr. Barb Greve: He drew a circle
that shut me out, heretic,

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rebel a thing to flout.

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But love and I had
the wit to win.

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We drew a circle
and took him in.

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This poem, titled
Outwitted, by Edwin Markham,

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was used to open children's
chapels when I was a child.

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And continues to remind me
that our faith wins only

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when the circle is large
enough to embrace us all.

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Whenever I have found myself
struggling with who to be

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or how to live in the world,
this poem returns me to center.

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At times I have been
the one standing

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on the outside hoping
to be invited in.

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And at other times
I have had the power

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to draw the circle
that took others in.

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28 years ago I chose to join
a Unitarian Universalist

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congregation.

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I was raised as a
Unitarian Universalist

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but became an official
member of my congregation

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at the age of 15.

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Despite having been here since
the beginning of my life,

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there have been times when I've
considered leaving our faith.

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These have been the times when
the circle has shut me out,

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when our commitments to
justice and affirmation

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are more words than action.

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Moments when I am asked to be
inauthentic for the comfort

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of all.

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To be patient as we learn to
be anti-oppressive communities.

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These are the moments
when I am most reminded

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of Markham's poem.

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When I am challenged to draw
our circle of love even larger.

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May we always partner
with love and draw

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a circle that brings all in.

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Rev. Tom Schade:
There's a moment

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when what the world
assumes you to be rubs up

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against the person you
know yourself to be.

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That external expectation
oh, it has so many forms.

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It can be the box of a
racial or ethnic stereotype.

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It could be a resource denied to
you because of the part of town

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you live in or the
school that you go to.

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It can be the cold
indifference of the assumption

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that people like you
are used to suffering.

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Are used to working
for low wages

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or being without
health insurance.

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It can be even closer and
more personal than that.

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The assumption of
your heterosexuality.

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Even the assumption of
your gender and your gender

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expression.

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And it can be less
severe than that.

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The assumption that you're
always going to go to the same

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church as your grandmother's.

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Or in the surprise that
your friends have when

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you decide to go
to church at all.

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It can be the assumption
that a high paying

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job is everybody's goal.

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And that external assumption,
that external expectation,

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can come from your
school, from your church,

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and even from the people
who love you the most

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and seem to know you the least.

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And a moment comes
for so many people

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that the friction that
comes between the rubbing

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of those assumptions
and your reality

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creates a little spark
and a little flame.

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Mary Oliver's great poem, The
Journey Ends With These Lines,

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there was a new voice which you
slowly recognized as your own.

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That kept you company as
you strode deeper and deeper

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into the world, determined to
do the only thing you could do.

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Determined to save the
only life you could save.

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You could save.

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Or as our song just said, if
they say no I'll go anyhow.

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I'm on my way.

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I'm on my way to
that freedom land.

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If they say no I'll go anyhow.

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How many people around
the world right now are

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guarding such a little flame?

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As they strive deeper and
deeper into the world.

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They hold it close.

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They guard that little flame.

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They guard it against the
prejudice and indifference

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of the social order.

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Against racism and sexism
and homophobia and xenaphobia

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and transphobia, and all
the phobias and fears

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of difference.

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And it may be just the small
flame of a different ambition,

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the personal need to
make art or music.

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They become pilgrims carrying
a little flame with them.

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Moving toward what seems to
them to be the freedom land.

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It has been one of the signature
gestures of liberal religion

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to draw a circle to
bring the pilgrim in.

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To reach out and love
and to offer them

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a chalice to hold their flame.

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And to build a fire of many such
flames, where no flame is ever

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lost.

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I believe that
Unitarian Universalism

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will lose a vital
piece of its soul

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if it loses touch with that
moment of self assertion

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when a person says
no, I can't stay here.

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I must leave.

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I must go any way.

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Come with me if you can.

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But if you say no
I'll go anyhow.

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Liberation and
self determination

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are sometimes individual and
hard and scary and irreversible

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and an essential piece
of the spiritual journey.

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And if we are to love
we must reach out

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to everyone struggling
with that first step.

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But on our growing edge,
Unitarian Universalism

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is also more than leaving.

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And more than welcoming
the wandering stranger.

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Sometimes love is staying.

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Sometimes love is staying
in a relationship.

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Sometimes love is staying
in a congregation.

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Sometimes love is
staying because you

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entered into a covenant.

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Sometimes love is
staying at the table

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when the discussion is making
you very uncomfortable.

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Sometimes love
reaches out to the one

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who is thinking about
breaking the covenant

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and inviting them to try
again to find a way forward.

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So sometimes we go and
sometimes we welcome

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and sometimes we stay and
sometimes we welcome them back.

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And how do you
know when for each?

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For everything
there is a season.

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How do you know?

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Love reaches out and
love shows us how.

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The opposite of love
is indifference.

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Love is engaged caring.

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Love is never saying I can't
worry about that person,

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their issues are
too great for me.

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Love is never saying
not my problem.

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Love is not trying
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but it is reaching out to care.

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Love reaches out.

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As this hymn coming says when
our spirits like a chalice

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fill with gladness, when
our voices full and clear

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sing out the truth, when
our longings free from envy

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seek the humble, love is
reaching out here by our side.

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Walking our way.

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Love is reaching out here
by our side walking our way.

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Speaker 3: Much of the
Spanish language music

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we've shared this week is
found in our purple hymnal,

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[SPANISH], which few of
our congregations own.

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But this piece is found in
the teal singing the journey

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hymnal.

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And its powerful message
of outreach expressed

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both in Spanish and in English
makes it an excellent choice

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for introducing Spanish
language singing into your home

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congregation.

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[SPANISH] Rise in body
or spirit and join us

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in singing Cuando el Pobre.

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[MUSIC - " CUANDO EL POBRE]

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Rev. Tom Schade: And
may the spirit of love

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reach out to you today.

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And may it fill the chalice
of our spirits with gladness.

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And may your love
overflow your heart

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and touch all those around you.

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And may you see the infinite
spirit of love by your side,

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moving with you
throughout this day.

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Amen and blessed be.

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May it be so.

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And may your love also reach
out to our fabulous moderator.

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And to all the
other participants

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in this plenary
session this morning,

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let us open our hearts
to their leadership

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as we do this work together.

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Amen and blessed be.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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