Gathering Music

“Let Your Light Shine”

“Welcome”

Call to Prayer

Ryan Pitt

Come, Come, whoever you are!
Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.
Come.
This is not a caravan of despair.
It doesn’t matter if you’ve broken your vow
a thousand times, still come,
and yet come again!  

– Rumi

Sung Evening Prayer

“Trusty and True” by Damien Rice

Scripture

Psalm 139:1-18

1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
   you discern my thoughts from far away.
3 You search out my path and my lying down,
   and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
   O Lord, you know it completely.
5 You hem me in, behind and before,
   and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
   it is so high that I cannot attain it.

7 Where can I go from your spirit?
   Or where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there;
   if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning
   and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
   and your right hand shall hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
   and the light around me become night,”
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
   the night is as bright as the day,
   for darkness is as light to you.

13 For it was you who formed my inward parts;
   you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
   Wonderful are your works;
that I know very well.
15     My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
   intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.
In your book were written
   all the days that were formed for me,
   when none of them as yet existed.
17 How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God!
   How vast is the sum of them!
18 I try to count them—they are more than the sand;
   I come to the end—I am still with you.

Choir Anthem

“Amazing Grace”

Reading

Ryan Pitt

Friend, our closeness is this:
Anywhere you put your foot, feel me
In the firmness under you.

How is it with this love,
I see your world and not you?

– Rumi

Silent Reflection

Sung Response

“Hananim”

Prayers of the People

Kelsey Wallace

Blessing

All:
Friends as we prepare to leave this place and go our separate ways remember that you are never alone. The God who made us and called us is with us still. So shroud yourself in peace, extend your hands in love, and keep hope ever before your eyes. Go with courage, go with strength, go with blessing. Amen.

Sending

“Mambo Sawa”

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Prayers of the people adapted by Kelsey Wallace from: the New Zealand Book of Common Prayer and the UKirk Worship Resource produced by the PC(U.S.A.).

Rumi. Rumi: The Book of Love. Translated by Coleman Barks. New York: Harper One, 2003. 144.