<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">And here is a musical meditation to go with it… <a href="http://www.uua.org/worship/words/music/there-love" class="">http://www.uua.org/worship/words/music/there-love</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 18, 2016, at 12:36 PM, C J via Lekooks <<a href="mailto:lekooks@lekook.org" class="">lekooks@lekook.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><div id="yiv8883560147" class=""><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6763" class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6762" class=""><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3413" class="">Hi All - </div><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3413" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3413" class="">I'm sharing this from the youth con worship service held a few weeks ago. Obviously with the sunshine it doesn't pertain today, but for any "gray" day ahead...</div><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3413" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3413" class="">-Claire</div><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3413" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div class="yiv8883560147qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6764"><br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div></div></div></div><div class=".yiv8883560147yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6765"><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3416" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" class=""><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3415" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" class=""><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3414" class=""> </div> <div class="yiv8883560147y_msg_container" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3479"><br clear="none" class=""><div id="yiv8883560147" class=""><div id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3484" class=""><div dir="ltr" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3483" class=""><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3482" style=""><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3481" style=""><font id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3480" face="tahoma, sans-serif" class="">I AM NOT ALONE. THERE IS A LOVE HOLDING ME. By Heather Rion Starr</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6766"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3485" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class="">May I move gently through this cloudy, murky, gray day.</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3486" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3487" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6887" class="">May I remember that this is just one day,</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3488" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3512" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class="">and that showing up is at least half of what is asked of me.</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6888"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3513" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class="">May I set aside my underlying anxiety that I will not get to everything</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class="">and put my trust and faith onto the riverbank of human community — we are working together.</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3514" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3516" style=""><font id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3515" face="tahoma, sans-serif" class="">I am not alone. There is a Love holding me that is unconcerned with my day's to-do list and more</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3517" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3519" style=""><font id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3518" face="tahoma, sans-serif" class="">concerned with my spirit's survival, even its thriving, in this beautiful, challenging world. May we all</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3520" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3522" style=""><font id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3521" face="tahoma, sans-serif" class="">remember that Rome wasn't built in a day, that our efforts are part of an ongoing stream of efforts,</font></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6882"><br class=""><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6881" class="">of lives being lived beside one another, shoring up this world.</span><br class=""></div><div class="yiv8883560147yqt3029362141" id="yiv8883560147yqtfd01081"><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3591" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6773"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6772" class="">May what little I do today be for the greater good.</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" style="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_6771"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3648" style=""><font id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3647" face="tahoma, sans-serif" class="">May I be gentle with others today as I long for others to be gentle with me.</font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" id="yiv8883560147yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461000613938_3646" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></font></div><div class="yiv8883560147gmail_default" 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