God is all without being any thing
while being the all in every thing.

God is the perhaps at the edge
of every moment of choosing.

Our Father who dwells within – All in all,
In you I live and move and have my being.

L: Our Father
R: Sounds a bit sexiest to me, what about our Mother?

L: Our Father who art in heaven
R: Well we could do with him down here, right enough, rather than up there

Dear One, closer to us than our own hearts, farther from us than the most distant star, you are beyond naming.

O God, You sent Jesus to teach us about Your love. He showed us that it included the children, whom the disciples would have turned away. Today we pray that we, too, can learn to gather them to our knees, lay our hands upon them and bless them.

May the sacred spirit of life’s adventure
Keep me safe when I feel afraid
Make me steadfast when I am sad

“Whosoever welcomes the littlest of these children welcomes me”
Jesus put children at the heart of his vision of the kingdom of heaven, but our society so often fails them
All: Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven belongs to little children

Leader: The presence of God is surely in this place.
People: The presence of God is everywhere.

We give thanks for families of all shapes and sizes, which provide such an important basis for love and support in our society.

Today we celebrate mothers in all their diversity:
Mothers who experienced the joy and challenge of pregnancy and childbirth to bring another human being into the world

O God, Infinite and everlasting!
By what name shall we call you? Being human, we have only human words to use.

Divine Wisdom, we come seeking your guidance in our efforts to work together for peace. We come from diverse ethnic groups, cultures, and religions. We believe these differences enrich us all. Lead us on your paths to lasting and true peace.

Dear God, bless my taxes! Give me peace of mind as I struggle to fill out the forms and determine the right amounts I should be sending to Washington and Sacramento. Keep me calm, I pray, as I write out those fat checks on April 15. And whisper a reminder to me, Lord, of all the good reasons that I send my money to my government every year.

All: We are all partners and stewards of the unfolding universe, which is God’s glorious creation. Together we make the following shared commitment:

This light which bathes the world,
pours from a source so close, so near
and yet we cannot touch it
or fence it in that it not be lost.

I’m a scientific kind of guy and to tell you the truth
I find the stories of the empty tomb hard to take in

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