Friday, January 25, 2013

Jazz Funeral for the New Year

Meditation/prayer delivered at our Jazz Funeral service, January 6, 2013

Let us take a moment to center ourselves
to breathe deeply into this moment of stillness

let us join our hearts and our intentions in this moment of prayer and meditation

in this community
we acknowledge the fullness of life

life with its pains
and life with its pleasures

life with its joys
and life with its sorrows

life that makes us weary
and life that gives us strength

as we pass through the doorway
from one year to the next
we lay down our burdens at the threshold
one beside another

may we also step boldly forward and take up the call of this new year
here
now
in this moment

may we awaken to the wonders of the world
to the abundance of life
to the power we hold
to give life the shape of justice

beginning again
and again
and yet again
in love
in compassion
in peace

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