Creator God of many names, Give us your widest view;
We seek your Spirit none can tame, Your visions bright and new.

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

Praise God whose breath fills all the earth
Whose love reveals our sacred worth

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

In the young, elders hope for justice.
In elders, the young see the wisdom of faith.

We are one with the creatures,
One with the plants,
One with the life of Earth.

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

Each individual
is like an angel
with only one wing

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.

The problem with being an atheist
is the lack
of imagination.

When Man from Eden new-cast out then tore at Earth and ripped
Her coal and iron, her oil and gold, his melancholy tipped
The world toward devastated blight, toward envy, hatred, wars.
They turned sweet hills to desert wastes and pocked the Earth with sores.

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

I lift up my eyes to Diablo
looming over the bay, a diadem of gold and green
spreading its dun folds down to its urban skirts

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.

“Why look for the living among the dead?” [Luke 24:5] “We live in a post-resurrection age, which in many ways is not unlike that of the first followers of a Galilean peasant sage and martyr, who was …

She let go. Without a thought or a word, she let go.