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Sunday, July 26th, 2020 || Eighth Sunday After Pentecost Pastor Christy Wright We invite you to join us in person at 9 AM, or join us in prayer from home. NEW: Audio worship is also available at (978) 990-5000, access code 719365#. Just dial in, enter the access code on your keypad, and you will hear the service begin with music. Scripture Reading Genesis 1:14-19 God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years, and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. God made two great lights - the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night - and the stars. God set them in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day. Isaiah 55:10-13 For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there until they have watered the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes out from My mouth; it shall not return to Me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it. For you shall go out in joy, and be led back in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall burst into song, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the cyprus; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be to the LORD for a memorial, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off. Sermon You know how, when you put a newspaper close to your eyes, you can see all those little dots that make up the images? I once heard someone tell a story about how when they were a child, they would read the comics in this way. They’d hold the comics section right up to their eyes and try to make sense of the storyline. It became a game for them, to try and figure out what was going on and where the punchline might be in the joke. Then they’d slowly pull the newspaper back to see if they had gotten it right. In reflecting on this practice, he said, “It’s a mass of dots that don’t seem to make much sense, but I like to think that God [sees the whole picture]. From this close, we can’t expect everything to make sense.” Isn’t it fascinating that in life, we so often don’t recognize the season we’re in at the moment because we’re too close to it? And maybe it’s only after some time has passed when we reflect that we see things differently? We are going through one of these seasons: the usual markers of time are gone, with the exception of the heat of the summer. This year, we were thrown off course by something we could have never imagined. We are wandering through a season that we can’t make sense of right now. Back in March, everything shut down, and we stopped meeting at church. We paused our journey through Lent, just waiting to see if we could gather again, but things progressed in such a way that we closed Lent in an unusual way and had to celebrate Easter from home. And as we moved through Pentecost, things were still not “back to normal,” and frankly, we don’t know when or if things will ever be back to normal. In our current church calendar, we’re walking through what’s called “Ordinary Time,” which is the annual set of Sundays between Pentecost and Advent; Ordinary Time is a time to reflect on our year, and a time to look forward to the hope that is coming in Christmastide. It can often be explained as the seasonless season, because there’s often not much going on. But this year? This year, we are definitely experiencing Extraordinary Time. That rhythm that we have lived with personally for decades, and communally for thousands of years? It’s gone, and it’s so difficult to find our footing in this uncertain time. We’re still too close to this season to truly see what’s going on. But here’s the thing: we know that God is with us. We proclaim it every day, and when we feel too weak to acknowledge it, our beautiful congregation members stand beside us when we don’t have the strength to believe. They believe for us. And we know we haven’t been abandoned because we can sense God’s presence in every sunrise and in every gentle breeze. And we know that we still have one another, because we see it in our tears when we finally embrace after such a long distance. This morning, I’d like to share three reasons why we can take heart in this extraordinary time. First, through Jesus, we have been given light for our journey. On the fourth day of creation, we hear of God’s works of the sun and moon. In some understandings, God is likened to the great star that rules the day, the sun. Radiance and power emanate from the core, and we can all feel its heat. It causes plants to grow and prosper, and it provides us with necessary nutrients. Jesus is seen as the moon, for he reflects God’s love like a mirror that shines light during times of darkness, so that we might find our way. This moon that orbits earth also has tangible effects - from the tides that ebb and flow further inland and back out to sea, to the cycles of the moon that help us mark time - these moments of divinity are physical markers of Jesus’ resurrection power here on earth. Through Jesus, we know that even in moments of the unknown and uncertain, we are not left to our own devices. We have guidance from the best example of Divine Love: Jesus Christ, whose ministry teaches us all we need to know about loving God, loving one another, and loving all of creation, regardless of what season we find ourselves in. Second, God has provided us with all we need during this time. Just as the earth has been watered, and the sun has come out to create a prosperous harvest, God is the source and ground of our being, and we know we can rely on God’s love in much the same way we can rely on the sun rising each morning. God’s faithfulness extends beyond our daily bread, which we pray for in the Lord’s prayer. We can trust in God’s providence to see us through this moment, even when we feel lost and confused about our season and our purpose during this time. But it’s not just personal; God provides more than enough love and grace for all people to partake. It is our job to spread God’s love, to distribute the wealth we find in our hope, to share a kind word with others. Just as God provides for us, we are called to provide for others. Lastly, we have the hope we find in the Bible and within the teachings we follow. In our Isaiah passage this morning, we hear a promise: God’s Word goes out abundantly like the rain and does not come back without a blessing, without growth, without a harvest of goodness. When God speaks, we affirm that regardless of what we’re going through, we were created for such a time as this, and God’s promise is true: we can never be separated from the love of God. Nothing will ever divide us from this Love, for we will never be taken out of God’s gracious care. And this promise will lead us toward life eternal, for God’s Word is powerful and life-giving. So, if we’re being honest with ourselves and with each other, as we look toward the future we may still feel overwhelmed, like we’re too close to the newspaper to figure out what’s really going on in our story. But we also know that God is our anchor, and God sees from a different perspective. The Divine view knows no bounds, and we can take hope in knowing that Jesus is our light for the journey, that we have all we need, and God’s promise is true. Take heart. We are not alone. And here’s even more good news: The seasons are changing. Can you see it? As the indigenous Leon Shenandoah states, “It’s so wonderful to smell the breeze when winter starts to turn toward spring and the wind shifts from the south. Oh, what a good feeling! And you know that you made it through the winter and you’re thankful. It made you tougher, you’re stronger for it. Each season is good. Mother Earth is working for you. She’s doing her duty. It’s a good feeling to be alive and see the changes.” Amen. Hymn of Meditation: Text from John O’Donohue, “For Celebration” Now is the time to free the heart, let all intentions and worries stop, Free the joy inside the self, awaken to the wonder of your life. Open your eyes and see the friends whose hearts recognize your face as kin, Those whose kindness watchful and near, encourages you to live everything here. See the gifts the years have given, things your effort could never earn, The health to enjoy who you want to be and the mind to mirror mystery And now, may the peace of the Lord Christ go with you wherever God may send you; may God guide you through the wilderness, protect you through the storm; may God bring you home rejoicing at the wonders God has shown you; may God bring you home rejoicing once again into our doors.
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Sunday, July 19th, 2020 || 7th Sunday After Pentecost Pastor Christy Wright We invite you to light a candle at 9 AM and join us in prayer NEW: Audio worship is also available at (978) 990-5000, access code 719365#. Just dial in, enter the access code on your keypad, and you will hear the service begin with music. Scripture Reading Genesis 1:9-13 And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together in one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together God called Seas. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.” And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed of every kind, and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day. Mark 4:26-29 He also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.” Sermon One of the things I love most about West Brookfield, aside from the people, is the opportunity to partake in local produce. There's a service that allows you to order fresh local fruits, vegetables, and other goods online and have it delivered straight to your door. Though I might have a green thumb with indoor plants (still to be determined), outdoor plants are sorely hopeless in my care: I either forget about them and they shrivel to papery ghosts of their former life, or I am too heavy-handed with the water and they rot from the roots on up. So this year, I decided to leave produce to the experts: the local farmers whose fields we drive past every day. This week I eagerly awaited the zucchini, kale, and fresh cherries and blackberries to be delivered right to my door. The flavor of in-season, local, and carefully nourished produce is beyond comparison, and in many ways, both the food and the cultivating of the land connects us back to the earth and to God. In our first passage this morning, we hear of God dividing bodies of water so earth can appear underneath it. It is in this rich soil, this deep, dark dirt that God cultivates the first fruits of creation - the first living organisms, brought to life through God’s word and work of light and darkness, of water and sky. On the third day of creation, in addition to fostering the perfect environment for plants to thrive, God implores the sunflowers to bear seeds to be scattered by the wind, the apple trees to blossom and grow food fit for eating and nourishing human and animal bodies, and the tallest of trees to shade and house the soon-to-be birds from the sun. God imparts wisdom on the earth itself and sets into motion an ancient and mysterious cycle: seed to stem to flower to fruit to seed - and on and on it goes. Our second passage attests to this prehistoric insight, as though the earth knows in its depths how to care for itself and is able to nurture the plants it holds and bear the fruit the world needs. This innate knowledge of the earth is not just something that we can explore in the 21st century, for its roots are strong within the ancient Israelite culture. One of the most important resources in ancient Israel was land; you hear it throughout the stories in the Hebrew Bible. Caring for particular parcels of land passed through families, and agriculture was the way families found life, both physically and spiritually. In the book of Exodus, it is commanded that the earth be worked, sowed, and harvested six years, and on the seventh year, the earth is to rest. This circle of life has continued on many Jewish farms for thousands of years - including local farms in New York and Connecticut to this day, and it has yielded not just material benefits in the form of produce, but religious ones too. In his book, Soil and Sacrament, spiritual ecologist Fred Bahnson explains that this Sabbath year, also known as a Jubilee year, is the cornerstone of what it means to love God and love neighbor (and creation on top of it all). “At first it’s counterintuitive that a cessation of farming for a whole year would result in [caring for all people], but the important part is not stopping the act of farming; it’s releasing your ownership,” he explains. “Your field is not really yours in any ultimate sense. You are its caretaker, not its owner. And when every seventh year you release the claim you thought you had on your field, you can’t help but remember just whose land it really is." Jesus knew this connection to the land was important in Jewish culture, because Jesus too, was Jewish. It was part of who he was in the human sense, and a part of who he continues to be as the Divine Christ. This is why he so often spoke to his audience in the agricultural language they would understand. But the location of Jesus’ ministry is also important to note: Jesus’ acts of love and compassion, and their connections to God cannot be divorced from the land. Bahnson states that “just as God scooped up the land to form the first Adam, Jesus scooped up the land to perform his mighty works. Jesus’ healing flowed from the land into people through the media of soil, water, bread, fish. His ministry took place not in the airless confines of the Jerusalem Temple but in the open hill country of Galilee: mountaintops, olive gardens, lakes, rivers, the wilderness.” For Jesus, the gardens and olive groves and fig nurseries were where he prayed, taught, and had conversations with his disciples. It was in the rolling hills in which the land and what it produced became sacred through Christ, and it now becomes a sacrament for us. Worshiping last week outdoors was a beautiful testament to our connection to the land. The next time we gather, we’ll be all together shaded under the great tree on the green, able to rest in the refuge of God’s love, knowing that our connection to the land is ultimately tied up in our connection with God. May we seek to treat the earth as the sacrament it is, knowing that the dirt from which we were formed is the same dirt from which our food nourishes us. May we understand that though the earth has its wisdom in bringing seed to sprout, this does not negate our mandate to care for the earth too. May we be called toward loving God, loving one another, and loving all of creation in all its fullness. “They who work with the earth from whence they came and to which they will return gets healed of their wounds. In a strange way they are somehow deeply reconciled with God again and walks at eventide with the Creator while they both look over the creation of their hands.” Catherine Doherty, Apostolic Farming Hymn: O Word of God Incarnate, UMH 598 O Word of God incarnate, O Wisdom from on high, O Truth unchanged, unchanging, O Light of our dark sky: We praise You for the radiance that from the hallowed page, A lantern to our footsteps, shines on from age to age. And now, may the peace of the Lord Christ go with you wherever God may send you; may God guide you through the wilderness, protect you through the storm; may God bring you home rejoicing at the wonders God has shown you; may God bring you home rejoicing once again into our doors.
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Sunday, July 12th, 2020 || Sixth Sunday After Pentecost Pastor Christy Wright We invite you to join us in person at 9 AM, or join us in prayer from home. If you plan to join us in-person, please review the safety protocols found here. NEW: Audio worship is also available at (978) 990-5000, access code 719365#. Just dial in, enter the access code on your keypad, and you will hear the service begin with music. Scripture Reading Genesis 1:6-8 And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so. God called the dome Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day. Isaiah 40:12-14, 21-22 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of God’s hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? Who has directed or instructed the Spirit? Whom did God consult for Divine enlightenment, and who taught God the path of justice? Who taught God knowledge and showed the way of understanding? Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood the foundations of the earth? It is God who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in. Sermon Back in 2015, I attended the Parliament of World Religions for the first time. This incredible gathering has a rich history that spans back to 1893 when it was first hosted in Chicago. Its goals were to foster interfaith dialogue that connected people more than divided, and it has since cultivated relationships that further world peace through the United Nations and other organizations. During my time in Salt Lake City in 2015, I learned so much from folks who had so little in common with me; but in a beautiful way, it unified us as we expanded our concepts of the Divine - mine grounded in Christianity, but enlarged by the beauty of other narratives. And the experience extended beyond the convention center into the city and afar. There were several pedicab drivers that waited along the sidewalks, ready to drop people off at their hotels or give tours of the city on their bikes and carriages. One evening I decided to take a tour, and my cyclist gave me a rundown of Salt Lake’s history and interesting facts about famous restaurants and movie sets. But it wasn’t the tour itself that captivated me; it was a moment when we cycled through a park, and I lifted my eyes to the sky. The tree branches whipped past, the moonlight bounced off the leaves, and my hair streamed behind me, and I was suddenly aware of the vastness of the world and the smallness of us. If I could take a tour like this in every major city, I would still only have the smallest fraction of understanding. If I could talk with every single person at the Parliament of World Religions (there were over ten thousand people in attendance), I would have only encountered a single drop in the entire ocean of spiritual knowledge. If I were to read the Bible cover to cover ten thousand times, my knowledge of God would pale in comparison to God’s Divinity itself. But I knew that, in some small and yet significant way, God was still present, still speaking, still among us. When we take the time to explore our world, to lift our heads to the sky, we are gifted with an overwhelming sense of smallness. In this morning’s scripture reading, we hear of God creating the great dome that surrounds us and the majesty of all creation. In the world, we are like grasshoppers in a dense forest of grass, looking up and sensing the greatness of creation around us. We may feel like a single grain of sand on an enormous beach that stretches as far as the eye can see. And, to be honest, our smallness can be scary. It has the ability to make us feel insignificant and unknown, forgotten and abandoned. But this smallness is actually a gift, for we know that in our smallness, God has promised to be with us. God has not left us abandoned. Jesus attests to this when he says, “My peace I give you; my peace I leave with you. Be not afraid.” Through the power of the Holy Spirit, we know that though we are just one facet of creation, the Spirit is closer than our very skin. And this very same Spirit empowers us through God’s grace to live in big ways, ways that witness to God’s Kingdom come, God’s will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. We are rooted in our smallness, but our roots are deep. When we take the time to explore our world, to lift our heads to the sky, we are gifted with an overwhelming sense of vastness. Have you ever been able to see the Milky Way? Perhaps on a camping trip, or even some nights in West Brookfield, we can see a splash of stars that light up like a stroke of glowing speckled paint in the night sky. Look too long, and it can feel like we’re falling into the stars, into the vastness of the galaxies beyond our understanding. Our Isaiah passage this morning speaks to God’s great majesty; from the wide oceans teeming with life to the vast waterways of trees and the veins of their leaves, God’s design is spectacular and beyond intricate. The first time I stepped foot into Grand Central Station in New York City, I was overcome with the sense that of the hundreds of people milling about, they all had a story. They were heading to work, or on their way home. They were visiting their future in-laws for the first time or saying goodbye to loved ones for the last time. They were preparing for a job interview or celebrating their retirement. The vastness of the human experience is overwhelming, but God cares for each and every single moment. God catches every tear. God celebrates with every smile. In this vastness, we know that God is present. When we take the time to explore our world, to lift our heads to the sky, we are gifted with an overwhelming sense of love. We know that after each day of creation, God steps back, surveys the wonders of the world, and says that it is good. This goodness is not simply qualitative, like checking a box on a quality control worksheet, but rather, this goodness is a declaration. It is a blessing, a blessing that infuses creation with virtue, honor, excellence, and righteousness. For God so loved the world that it was created with goodness, embedded with love that surpasses understanding. For God so loved the world that we were created in our smallness to be empowered by the Holy Spirit to do great things for the sake of the world. For God so loved the world that Love came down in the form of Jesus, the ultimate example of compassion manifest in earthly ministry and cosmic grace. Thanks be to God that we are fearfully and wonderfully made as we lift our eyes heavenward and praise the source of Life. Amen. Hymn of Meditation: Creating God, Your Fingers Trace (Rowthorn) Creating God, Your fingers trace the bold designs of farthest space; let sun and moon and stars and light and what lies hidden praise Your might. Sustaining God, Your hands uphold earth’s mysteries known or yet untold; let water’s fragile blend with air, enabling life, proclaim Your care. Redeeming God, Your arms embrace all now despised for creed or race; let peace, descending like a dove, make known on earth Your healing love. Indwelling God, Your gospel proclaims one family with a billion names; let every life be touched by grace until we praise You face to face. And now, may the peace of the Lord Christ go with you wherever God may send you; may God guide you through the wilderness, protect you through the storm; may God bring you home rejoicing at the wonders God has shown you; may God bring you home rejoicing once again into our doors.
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Sunday, July 5th, 2020 || Fifth Sunday After Pentecost Pastor Christy Wright We invite you to light a candle at 9 AM and join us in prayer NEW: Audio worship is also available at (978) 990-5000, access code 719365#. Just dial in, enter the access code on your keypad, and you will hear the service begin with music. Scripture Reading Genesis 1:1-5 In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light;” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day and the darkness God called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through God, and without God not one thing came into being. What has come into being in the Word was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. Sermon I’d like to open with a story from the theologian Rob Bell, who highlights the power of vulnerability in the act of creativity. He recalls that “by the early 90s, the legendary singer Johnny Cash had been all but forgotten by the music industry. This bothered the music producer Rick Rubin, who suggested they work together. Rubin set up a microphone and asked Cash to play the guitar and sing whatever songs he wanted to. A man, a guitar, and a microphone. “After doing this for a while, Rubin suggested that Cash play a solo acoustic show at the Viper Room in Los Angeles. Just him and his guitar, all alone on the stage - without his band to back him up like they’d done for years. Rubin recalled in an interview, ‘I remember he was terrified before going on. This was a guy who did 200 shows a year for forty years. And the idea of going up by himself, with a guitar and singing songs, absolutely terrified him. I remember watching him, how nervous he was through the first song...you could hear a pin drop - dead silence.’ And in the terror, Cash found a whole new career. Rubin stripped away the other instruments and musicians and staging and trappings that Cash had learned to rely on over the years. And in the process, discovered a voice that had been there all along. Rubin reflected later: ‘People who were there that night still talk about it as one of the greatest things they’d ever seen.’” When we think about the Christian story, we can sometimes get bogged down in concepts of sin and forgiveness, grace and mercy, heaven and hell, and other heady topics that are incredibly difficult to relate with and often require us to speak a different language, one that is often termed as “stained glass language,” a dialect of big words and concepts without grounding and mired in nebulous ideas. So it often helps to start at the very beginning, to strip away what we think we know about Christianity and instead be guided by the Divine story at the beginning of the Bible: Genesis, Chapter 1. In this summer sermon series, we will be exploring the seven days of creation, one at a time, as we uncover what it means to live in a sacred world. In this morning’s scripture reading, we hear of God’s creation of light and dark, of day and night. The Genesis passage tells us of a dark, formless, misty mass; I imagine that creation was dim, dull, and lifeless, like looking down into the murky water of a muddy lake. And we’re told that creation, at the beginning, was void - void of color, of movement, of texture, of organic growth of any kind. But then, God spoke and said, “Let there be light.” In that single statement, all of creation was suddenly birthed into newness; the mist burned away, darkness lifted, and it was the beginning of life. The light struck the formless mass with immense power, and suddenly everything sparkled. What was once dim, dull, and lifeless was now illuminated, shiny, and brimming with possibility. Everything material came from this single moment, from these four words: “Let there be light.” And of course, God saw that it was good. But what if there’s more going on here? What if there was something immaterial happening here too? In the Gospel of John, we hear a passage that dangerously borders on the “stained glass language” of being unable to make sense of it. We hear of the Divine presence of the Word, from the very beginning. As Christians, we believe that the Word become flesh was Jesus - that the prophecies that foretold of Jesus’ life were the words, and because Jesus fulfilled that prophecy, we say that he is the Word become flesh. If we believe this, then in conjunction with the passage from Genesis, we see that they align perfectly. Somehow, in Jesus’ divinity, he was present from the beginning of time. And in Jesus’ earthly time - from Cosmic Christ present at the beginning of time to Earthly Jesus, with the Word become flesh, all of life was catalyzed and set into motion in a very tangible way. We know of Jesus’ miraculous conception, and we know of his ministry - his life-saving, status-quo challenging, and community-building ministry. And we know that Jesus became vulnerable in the midst of his ministry - he became like us. And we also know that Jesus was killed by systems of oppression that continue to operate today. Rob Bell states that “the first Christians insisted that when Jesus died on the cross, this wasn’t just another execution by the Roman Empire. They believed this was the Divine, in flesh and blood, hanging on the cross, bloody, thirsty, suffering. God who is not somewhere else - remoted, detached, distant - but among us, feeling what we feel, aching how we ache, suffering like us.” This is the Word that became flesh, for us, that we might know that we are not alone. From the dark void, there is Someone who can empathize with our pain. From the dark void, there is Someone who became vulnerable for us. And in the dark tomb, Jesus’ body lay, motionless. But on the third day, light was. Light became. And life was made new, not just for Jesus in his vulnerability, but for all of creation through his resurrection. And it was the greatest thing humanity had ever seen: new creation, a creative endeavor that turned the world upside down, death to life. In the midst of a dark, formless, misty mass, light was. Light became. In our personal experiences, perhaps we’ve seen this to be true. From a lost job, we might come to find what we were truly meant to do with our lives. From a broken relationship, we might come to find healthier boundaries. From seed to stem, from empty to full, from darkness to light, this is the story of creation. And it happens everyday. Creation and recreation, again and again. Ultimately, the creation story is not about a time way back further than we can imagine. It’s here, now. Do you see it? The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness does not overcome it. Amen. Hymn: God Be With You, UMH 672 God be with you till we meet again; By God’s counsels guide, uphold you, With God’s sheep securely fold you; God be with you till we meet again. Till we meet, till we meet, Till we meet at Jesus' feet; Till we meet, till we meet; God be with you till we meet again. And now, may the peace of the Lord Christ go with you wherever God may send you; may God guide you through the wilderness, protect you through the storm; may God bring you home rejoicing at the wonders God has shown you; may God bring you home rejoicing once again into our doors. |
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