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Dave Ruffin: How's
everyone doing tonight?

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Are there some people in the
house who are ready to worship?

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Are you ready to worship
like you mean it, tonight?

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Where is this voice coming from?

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I'm not on the stage.

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I'm very close to the stage,
but I'm not quite on the stage.

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What's up?

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I'm Dave.

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I'm the coordinator of
the Sanctuary Boston.

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I'm so so so so pumped to
share this night with you

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all, this incredible
celebration of love

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reaching out that we're about
to have here, in worship,

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and then, when we actually
do reach out and head down

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to WaterFire for this
public witness to love,

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our need for love and
our capacity to love.

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But the reason why I'm talking
to you right now, before we're

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really getting
going, is because I

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want to make worship
even more fun for you

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tonight by teaching some
of the musical parts that

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may be a little bit less
familiar-- just a few--

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so that when they
come, you'll be ready,

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and you'll just enjoy it.

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You won't be trying to
learn at that point.

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The first one is a song you
all know, "Enter, Rejoice,

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and Come In," but we do
it a little bit different,

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so check this out.

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Goes

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[SINGING]

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Just try that with me.

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Here we go.

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[SINGING]

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Then try this.

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It goes like this.

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[SINGING]

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Try that.

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[SINGING]

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One more time.

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[SINGING]

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You got that.

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All right.

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Mykal's going to sing
it one more time anyway,

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so that'll be a piece of cake.

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Now, anybody heard
of Rare Earth?

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Put your hands together
if you know Rare Earth.

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All right.

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We love their song "I
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Here's how it goes.

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[SINGING]

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Sing that with me.

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[SINGING]

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One more time.

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[SINGING]

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And then the last time--
the fourth time-- we go,

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[SINGING]

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Try that.

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[SINGING]

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Let's do that one more time.

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[SINGING]

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Beautiful.

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All right.

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That's down.

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Now, Jesus Jones.

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'80s-- that's my era.

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"Right Here Right Now."

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Here's how it goes.

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[SINGING]

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[INAUDIBLE] with me.

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Here we go.

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[SINGING]

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Beautiful.

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One more time.

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[SINGING]

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And then the fourth one-- I
want to hear who knows it.

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[SINGING]

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All right.

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Let's do that together.

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[SINGING]

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All right.

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That should keep you
guys in pretty good shape

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for our gathering music.

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I think we're
about to get going.

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I hope you enjoy the worship.

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[MUSIC -- "ALL ARE WELCOME"]

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Dave Ruffin: I will
say one more thing.

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If you feel like you've got so
much worshipful energy that you

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want to give permission,
out there, to other people,

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to really worship,
we would love you

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to come up on stage
and worship with us

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because we've got
some seats up here

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and these courageous people.

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So if your heart just
said, is he talking to me,

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the answer is, yes, come on up.

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Give that gift to
these other people.

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They want to see
you worshipping.

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They can keep them on.

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Don't take your name
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on stage because
otherwise [INAUDIBLE].

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[SINGING]

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Dave Ruffin: All are welcome.

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[SINGING]

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[APPLAUSE]

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Speaker 1: Come as you are.

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All are welcome.

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[MUSIC -- "COME COME WHOEVER YOU
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Dave Ruffin: All right.

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All right.

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All right.

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[APPLAUSE]

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[MUSIC -- "ENTER, REJOICE, AND
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Mykal Slack: Join me.

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[SINGING]

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Dave Ruffin: Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

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[APPLAUSE]

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes!

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Dave Ruffin: Oh, yeah.

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[MUSIC -- "FOR ALL THAT IS OUR
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[MUSIC -- "I JUST WANT TO
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[MUSIC -- "RIGHT HERE RIGHT
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[MUSIC -- "I JUST WANT TO
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[MUSIC -- "FOR ALL THAT IS OUR
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[APPLAUSE]

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Dave Ruffin: So help me out.

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Help me out because
I wasn't quite sure.

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Is there anyone who's
grateful to be here tonight?

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[CHEERING]

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Come on, now.

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Don't be shy.

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Is there anyone in
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grateful to be here tonight?

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[CHEERING]

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Dave Ruffin: Are you
grateful for your lives?

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Yes?

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[CHEERING]

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Dave Ruffin: For
everyone in your life?

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Say yes if so.

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Audience: Yes!

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Dave Ruffin: For
everyone in this room?

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Audience: Yes!

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Dave Ruffin: All right.

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Let's help each other feel that.

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Turn to your
neighbor, right now,

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and just say simply
to them, say, yes.

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Just turn to your
neighbor and say, yes.

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[SIDE CONVERSATION]

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Dave Ruffin: Beautiful.

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Beautiful.

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All right.

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Now turn to another neighbor,
and say, yes, to them.

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Just say, yes.

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[SIDE CONVERSATION]

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Dave Ruffin: We could
be doing this all night.

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Yes to all that is our life.

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Let's say, yes, together.

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Yes!

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Audience: Yes!

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Dave Ruffin: Let's do it again.

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Say, yes.

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Audience: Yes!

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Dave Ruffin: To finding
sanctuary right here, right

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now, say, yes.

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Audience: Yes!

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Dave Ruffin: To
Sanctuary Boston?

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Audience: Yes!

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Dave Ruffin: To
Sanctuary Providence?

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Audience: Yes!

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Dave Ruffin: To creating
sanctuary wherever we go!

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Audience: Yes!

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Dave Ruffin: In times of joy!

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Audience: Yes!

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Dave Ruffin: In the
places of brokenness.

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Audience: Yes!

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Dave Ruffin: With faith!

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Audience: Yes!

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Dave Ruffin: In love!

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Audience: Yes!

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Dave Ruffin: In love!

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Audience: Yes!

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Dave Ruffin: To love!

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Audience: Yes!

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Dave Ruffin: To love!

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Audience: Yes!

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Dave Ruffin: Say that with me.

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Yes to love!

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Audience: Yes to love!

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Dave Ruffin: All right.

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I think we're ready to go then.

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Put your hands
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Mykal Slack: Hold on a second.

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Hold on a second.

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Hold on a second.

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Dave Ruffin: What?

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What?

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What?

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Mykal Slack: Hold on a second.

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That's all well and
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there's actually something more.

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That's a good start.

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Don't get me wrong.

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That's a good start.

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Dave Ruffin: What could be more?

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Mykal Slack: But there
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Dave Ruffin: All right.

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Mykal Slack: More love.

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More love reshaping
our relationships.

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More love building
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More love building up our world.

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More love, as we seek
justice both within ourselves

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and outside of ourselves.

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Amen?

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Audience: Amen.

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Mykal Slack: Do you all feel
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tonight?

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Audience: Yeah!

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[MUSIC -- "THERE IS MORE LOVE
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Mykal Slack: OK.

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Let's try that again.

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Do you all feel that
possibility in here tonight?

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Audience: Yes!

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Mykal Slack: All right.

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Well, sing this with me.

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[SINGING]

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Dave Ruffin: Yeah.

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So that song took shape
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of African Americans, as
they made way out of nowhere.

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They knew the extremity
of our world's brokenness,

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yet still sung of love.

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And now we're lifting
our voices tonight.

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And we're still living
in a crazy, broken world.

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But we can always make
way for more love,

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even where there
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Amen?

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Audience: Amen!

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Dave Ruffin: As
Unitarian Universalists,

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we are called to work for a more
peaceful and just-filled world.

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And tonight is our
public witness.

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Audience: Yes!

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Dave Ruffin: But
tonight-- check it out.

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Tonight we're getting to
the heart of that calling

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because we're witnessing to love
itself-- healing, transforming,

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bridge building,
justice seeking love,

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reaching out because,
quite simply,

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more love is what
the world needs.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Yes.

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And because it's what we need.

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We are wrapped up in
the world's brokenness.

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We, in this room, need
love's healing power.

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We need sanctuary.

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Dave Ruffin: Yes.

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And so here we are.

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When two or three gather
together in our need--

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or say, maybe 5,000--
and open ourselves

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to the presence of
love in this room,

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well, then our witness
has already begun.

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So will you really pray
these words with me,

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as we open our hearts to the
possibility of more love?

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[SINGING]

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Mykal Slack: When I first
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Boston community, I didn't
really know what to do with it.

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So here I was-- black, queer,
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of faith.

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And I stepped into
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And like so many other
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I wasn't sure if
I could trust it.

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Dave Ruffin: That's right.

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Mykal Slack: You
see, I wanted to know

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that there was a way in, for me.

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I wanted to know that I could
fully show up as my whole self,

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pull back all of the layers
of me, and be vulnerable.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Mykal Slack: I wanted to know
that there was more love.

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And you know what?

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I didn't even just want it.

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In that particular moment,
I really needed it.

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Dave Ruffin: Yes.

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Mykal Slack: I needed it
in ways that I didn't even

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have words to express.

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It was October 2012,
and I was gearing up

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for my ordination in
Metropolitan Community

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Churches, a culmination of
eight really long years of study

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and life lessons.

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And my father-- my dad-- had
died less than nine months

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before.

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I missed him terribly as
I stepped into that space.

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And I wasn't sure how I could
experience this milestone

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without him.

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You see, my father and I,
were not very connected

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to each other for
most of my adult life.

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He didn't know
what to do with me.

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And I had no idea how to
be my full self around him.

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And it wasn't until the
last two years of his life

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that we started
to see each other.

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And we enjoyed
each other so much.

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And I loved him so much.

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And he was able to tell
me how much he loved me.

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And suddenly, he was gone.

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And that was
incredibly difficult.

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And I couldn't see
the ministry that I

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had prepared so hard for.

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I couldn't see in front of me.

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And I couldn't see the life
that I had hoped so much

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for because my
father had finally

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found the son he had
always hoped for,

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and I had found the father
I had always longed for.

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And suddenly, that was over.

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So, you know, I walked in
with all kinds of sadness

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and expected to walk out
with not much more than that.

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Something really
marvelous happened.

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The arms of a
community showed up

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and wrapped
themselves around me.

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The music of a
community showed up

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and laid the tune of
possibility inside of me.

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And the love of a
community showed up

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and said to me and all
that I was carrying

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when I walked in the
door, you can sit down.

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Settle in.

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Now, we're going to love on you.

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And we're going to
heal you right up.

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And so what I walked
in with, I didn't

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have to leave the door with.

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Amen?

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Audience: Amen!

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The hopefulness that I had
lost, I was able to reclaim.

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And this is at the
heart of what is

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the best about all
of our communities.

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Dave Ruffin: Mhm.

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Mykal Slack: This is who
we can be to each other.

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In my brokenness, I
was bound up in love,

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and found, in that
moment, that I was enough.

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[SINGING]

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Mykal Slack: Can you
sing that with me?

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[SINGING]

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Mykal Slack: Yeah.

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That's how that goes.

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That's how we do that.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Speaker 3: Please take the
hand of the person next to you.

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And as you're holding their
hand, listen to these words

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from the Reverend Erika Hewitt.

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"The hand in yours belongs to a
person whose heart is sometimes

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tender, whose skin
is sometimes thin,

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whose eyes sometimes
fill with tears,

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whose laughter is
a beautiful sound.

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The hand that you hold
belongs to a person

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who is seeking
wholeness and knows

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that you are doing the same."

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Mykal Slack: Let's
pray together.

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Spirit of life, source
of love, awakened heart,

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we are so so very grateful
for this gift of love,

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so very grateful that we can
feel that love in this moment,

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and that that love,
reaching in, can go out.

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Thank you.

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But in our loving,
we have also lost.

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We've lost.

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Bind up our hearts in love.

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Speaker 4: Spirit of life, as
we struggle with our health,

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with the illnesses of
loved ones with addiction,

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we pray that we feel held
by the love surrounding us.

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We pray for healing.

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Speaker 5: God, who is
love, we've hurt each other,

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and we have been hurt.

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Open our hearts.

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Open our hearts
anew to each other.

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Free us to forgive.

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Speaker 6: Holy one, we
often live in this world

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as if we are separate.

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Give us new vision to
live out our unity.

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Make us whole.

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Mykal Slack: In our brokenness.

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[SINGING]

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Dave Ruffin: Will
you sing with me?

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[SINGING]

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Dave Ruffin: When I
feel like I'm hiding.

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[SINGING]

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Dave Ruffin: When I
feel like I'm tiring.

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[SINGING]

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Dave Ruffin: Let's do
that one more time.

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When I feel like I'm hiding.

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[SINGING]

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Dave Ruffin: Ask each other.

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[SINGING]

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Dave Ruffin: Peter.

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[SINGING]

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Dave Ruffin: Here we go.

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[SINGING]

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Dave Ruffin: Tell your neighbor.

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[SINGING]

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[APPLAUSE]

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Speaker 7: Thank you.

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Thank you for this wholeness.

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Reach out.

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Offer a hand, again,
to a neighbor.

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Put a palm on a shoulder.

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Spirit of life, God, who is
love, we have our wholeness,

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and you also hold our doubts.

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Are we capable of the kind
of love that we sing about?

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Are we the right people
to transform this world?

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Is this the right religion?

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And what about when we lose?

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Beloved God, what
about when we lose

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on a legislative issue or
a stewardship campaign?

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What about when a salary is cut?

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What about when we
cannot do the job?

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We lay our doubts at
the Altar of Community.

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In our brokenness,
love binds us up.

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In our brokenness, we
find we are enough.

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This evening, we prepare
our hearts to witness,

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to the power of our Unitarian
Universalist faith-- faith

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that nothing can cast us out
of that great circle of love.

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Amen?

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Dave Ruffin: Amen.

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Audience: Amen!

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Speaker 7: Faith
that the miracles

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of life, the
resilience of community

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will always humble and amaze us.

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Amen?

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Dave Ruffin: Amen.

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Audience: Amen!

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Speaker 7: Faith that no
matter the brokenness, grace

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and courage are ours.

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Amen?

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Dave Ruffin: Amen.

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Audience: Amen!

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Speaker 7: We make way
for love that reaches in,

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and we make way for
love that reaches out.

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We are a sanctuary
without walls.

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We are a living
sanctuary for love.

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May it be so, and let
the people say, amen.

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Dave Ruffin: Amen.

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Audience: Amen!

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[MUSIC -- "THERE IS MORE LOVE"]

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Dave Ruffin: When we say,
yes, to all that is our life--

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[SINGING]

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Mykal Slack: When, in our
brokenness, we find sanctuary--

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[SINGING]

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Speaker 8: When, with our divine
light, we create sanctuary--

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[SINGING]

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Dave Ruffin: In sanctuary,
we free our love

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to reach out,
creating more love.

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Speaker 4: For personal work.

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Speaker 5: For communal work.

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Speaker 6: For justice work.

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Mykal Slack: And when justice
makes way for more peace--

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Speaker 8: And more peace
makes way for more hope--

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Speaker 2: And more hope
makes way for more joy--

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Speaker 3: And more joy
makes way for more love--

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Group: Then there is
more love right here.

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Dave Ruffin: All right.

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Hallelujah.

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Let's sing about it.

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[SINGING]

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[APPLAUSE]

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Speaker 9: Well,
we've shown up tonight

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as we are, grateful and
joyful, hurting and in need.

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And there is more
love right here.

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Dave Ruffin: That's right.

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Speaker 9: And that's what
the world out there needs,

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too-- our courage to show
up as we are, open to love.

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It will still be hard, but
love will hold us together.

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And that's all we really need.

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Dave Ruffin: Mark Buckles,
ladies and gentlemen.

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[MUSIC -- "HOLD US TOGETHER"]

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[SIDE CONVERSATION]

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Dave Ruffin: Look around.

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Look.

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Look around.

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We are not alone.

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We are held together.

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In love, we are a
living sanctuary.

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We are a sanctuary.

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Will you say that with me?

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Audience: We are sanctuary.

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Dave Ruffin: We're a living
witness for our faith, a living

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witness for love's power to
heal wounds, to bridge divides,

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and to transform our world.

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And this witness is on the move.

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Whatever we may face,
we're holy, we're loved,

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we're never alone,
and we're living

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the first day of the
rest of our lives.

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So let's reach out.

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Reach out.

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[SINGING]

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[APPLAUSE]

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Mykal Slack: May love keep
us, bless us, hold us,

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and help us create sanctuary
wherever we may go.

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Dave Ruffin: Amen.

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Mykal Slack: Amen.

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00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:02,050
Dave Ruffin: Amen.

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00:54:02,050 --> 00:54:02,725
Mykal Slack: [INAUDIBLE]

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00:54:02,725 --> 00:54:03,349
Audience: Amen!

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Mykal Slack: And blessed be.

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Matt Meyer: It's time for
us to begin our movement

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towards the river, to WaterFire,
to celebrate, together,

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to the power of love,
to change our own lives,

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to change the world around us.

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We're going to begin with
Oriana McKanan, who's

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going to take that flame down
to the water where she'll

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eventually light the
fires on the river.

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She'll be joined by Peter
Morales and Jim Key.

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And then we're going to
invite all of our siblings

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in spirit, in
wheelchairs or scooters,

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00:54:34,390 --> 00:54:37,860
to join those three at the
front of the procession.

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And together, they will
lead us to the river.

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Dave Ruffin: Yes.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:43,043
Matt Meyer: And then your
ushers will dismiss you,

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00:54:43,043 --> 00:54:48,030
one row at a time, to join them
in that walk, and that stroll,

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00:54:48,030 --> 00:54:50,421
and that movement
down to WaterFire.

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Mykal Slack: Amen.

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Dave Ruffin: But we
want every sacred soul

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in this place to
be held in love,

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00:54:56,280 --> 00:55:00,020
to be held in song until
they leave these doors.

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00:55:00,020 --> 00:55:02,914
So we're going to keep
on singing if that's OK.

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Is that all right with you all?

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[APPLAUSE]

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So keep your eyes
on your ushers.

519
00:55:07,860 --> 00:55:10,670
They've got the luminaria
to help you out.

520
00:55:10,670 --> 00:55:14,170
And let's sing each other
out, all the way down

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to the celebration
at the WaterFire.

522
00:55:16,460 --> 00:55:20,501
Take it away, Mark.

523
00:55:20,501 --> 00:58:12,904
[MUSIC -- "HOW SWEET IT IS TO BE
 LOVED BY YOU"]

524
00:58:12,904 --> 00:58:16,743
[APPLAUSE]

525
00:58:16,743 --> 00:58:17,784
Dave Ruffin: Man, oh man.

526
00:58:17,784 --> 00:58:21,200
Man.

527
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:23,420
Still feeling the
love out there?

528
00:58:23,420 --> 00:58:23,920
All right.

529
00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:26,030
This song's going to help
us make sure about that.

530
00:58:26,030 --> 00:58:34,858
[MUSIC -- "SAN FRANCISCO"]

531
00:58:34,858 --> 01:01:16,571
Mark Buckles: Rachel
Kelly on violin.

532
01:01:16,571 --> 01:01:20,017
[APPLAUSE]

533
01:01:20,017 --> 01:01:21,100
Dave Ruffin: Rachel Kelly!

534
01:01:21,100 --> 01:01:25,582
Mykal Slack: All right.

535
01:01:25,582 --> 01:01:27,076
Sorry.

536
01:01:27,076 --> 01:01:30,318
[MUSIC -- "HAPPY"]

537
01:01:30,318 --> 01:03:48,502