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