What You Don’t Know You Know: Poems for This Day

What You Don’t Know You Know: Poems for This Day
Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains
August 24, 2025
Rev. Kevin Tarsa
Beth Karow, Worship Associate

Beth Karow finds powerful, moving, meaningful poems and readings all year long, suggesting them to the Worship Team. In order to feed our souls, we immerse ourselves in some of those writings, as well as others, and in songs that speak to our lives and to this day.  

Song for Gathering  When Our Heart is in a Holy Place #1008 by Joyce Poley

Land Acknowledgement  Rev. Kevin Tarsa and Beth Karow, Worship Associate

About the Chalice  words from Gene Gilligan 

Lighting of the Chalice  Jenny Dewey

Singing the Children on Their Way  

Welcome  Beth Karow, Worship Associate 

Greeting One Another 

Commissioning of the 2025-2026 UUCM Board Members  

Opening Words  Beth Karow  

Music  Morning Song by Heather Grove 

Candle of Compassion, Resistance, and Resilience  Unconcerned by Lynn Ungar 

Music  Unconcerned by Lea Morris

Poem  Begin Again by Jeannette Encinias 

Joys & Sorrows 

Prayer & Meditation  To the God Who Made Honeysuckle by Chelan Harkin 

Song  The Lone, Wild Bird #15, words by H. R. MacFayden 

Reading  Not So Long Ago by John Roedell

Music  Let It Shine by Heather Grove

Offering  Beth Karow 

Offertory  Heather Grove

Dedication  Beth Karow 

Thank You & Announcements   

Closing Song  Immortal Love #10 words by John Greenleaf Whittier set to an ancient Irish tune

Closing Words  by Utah Phillips

Community Benediction / Extinguishing of the Chalice  
                Carry the flame of peace and love until we meet again.   

Music for Going Forth