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I’m looking forward to the sermon by our guest speaker, the Rev. Beth Banks, senior minister of our UU Church in Davis. Sermon title is “Unlocking the Treasure,” using Lynne Sweet’s book The Soul of Money.
Thanksgiving Sunday Hymn 2013
Words by Rev. E. T. Buehrer, 1956 (UUA hymnal #67)
Music: A Dutch folk tune arranged by Edward Kremser, 1890s.
We sing now together our song of thanksgiving,
rejoicing in goods which the ages have wrought,
for Life that enfolds us, and helps and heals and holds us,
and leads beyond the goals which our forbears once sought.
We sing of the prophets, the teachers, the dreamers,
designers, creators, and workers and seers,
our own lives expanding, our gratitude commanding,
their deeds have made immortal their days and their years
We sing of community, now in the making
in every far continent, region, and land;
with those of all races, all times and names and places,
we pledge ourselves in covenant firmly to stand.
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Story about the 1963 Words
New words by Dorothy & Rev. Robert Senghas, 1963 (UUA hymnal #349)
We gather together in joyful thanksgiving,
acclaiming creation, whose bounty we share;
both sorrow and gladness we find now in our living,
we sing a hymn of praise to the life that we bear.
We gather together to join in the journey,
confirming, committing our passage to be
a true affirmation, in joy and tribulation,
when bound to human care and hope, then we are free.
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