“The Fine Art of Doing Nothing!”

Led by
Rev. Deborah Bennett

Thank you to this morning’s Worship Team

Listening Associate:  
Usher: Bob Walker
Tech Host:  Lance Collins

“What I like doing best is Nothing.””How do you do Nothing?” asked Pooh.”Well, it’s when people call out at you just as you’re going off to do it, What are you going to do Christopher Robin, and you say, Oh, nothing, and you go and do it… It means just going along,
listening to all the things you can’t hear and not bothering.”

 

Chime

Opening Video  “Taking My Time  by Empty Hands

Welcome and Opening Words  Rev. Deborah

Chalice Lighting  by Kathleen McTigue

*Opening Hymn  #38  Morning Has Broken

*Unison Affirmation
Love is the spirit of this church
And service our mission
This is our great covenant
To dwell together in peace
To seek the truth in love
And to help one another

Reading  by Henry David Thoreau

Joys and Sorrows

Time for Centering  Lance Collins
  and Rev. Deborah

Poetry  by Lance Collins

Hymn  #1009  Meditation on Breathing

Sermon  The Fine Art of Doing Nothing  Rev. Deborah

*Closing Hymn  #16‘  Tis a Gift to Be Simple

Call for the Offering  The Tomaquag Museum
The Museum seeks to educate all relations(everyone   about Indigenous cultures of the Dawnland, (Southern   New England). It is Rhode Island’s only museum entirely   dedicated to telling the story of the  Indigenous peoples of this land.

Offertory

Closing Words  by Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh

*Extinguishing the Chalice
Carry the Flame of Peace and Love Until We Meet Again (repeat)