J. Rodney Fulcher - "Both Sides Now" (August 31, 1969)
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Pastor | The Lord has called us together | 2:11 |
in peace, love, and fellowship with each other, | 2:14 | |
and with all men. | 2:18 | |
With joy and thanksgiving, | 2:21 | |
we celebrate the things the Lord has done for us, | 2:22 | |
and the great love and forgiveness he has for us. | 2:26 | |
Therefore, we are able to confess our sins to him. | 2:30 | |
Father, we confess all the sins | 2:36 | |
by which we have turned away from each other, | 2:39 | |
and from you, | 2:42 | |
in our thinking, speaking, and doing. | 2:44 | |
We have done the evil you forbid, | 2:48 | |
and we have not done the good to which we are called. | 2:52 | |
Our lives and our society are twisted, narrow, and violent. | 2:56 | |
We do repent and we are truly sorry for all our sins. | 3:04 | |
Have mercy upon us. | 3:10 | |
Forgive us and help us to forgive one another. | 3:11 | |
Amen. | 3:17 | |
Now, as your brother in Christ, | 3:19 | |
I offer to you these comfortable words, | 3:21 | |
the Lord has mercy on you, forgives your sin, | 3:25 | |
and restores you to new life. | 3:29 | |
Peace be with you. | 3:33 | |
Amen. | 3:34 | |
(ethereal organ music) | 3:39 | |
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(woman singing) | 4:07 | |
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The lesson is written in the gospel, | 6:36 | |
according to Saint Mark, | 6:37 | |
the 10th chapter beginning with the 17th verse. | 6:40 | |
And as he was setting out on his journey, | 6:47 | |
a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, | 6:51 | |
'Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?' | 6:54 | |
And Jesus said to him, 'Why do you call me good? | 7:01 | |
No one is good, but God alone. | 7:05 | |
You know, the commandments. Do not kill. | 7:08 | |
Do not commit adultery. Do not steal. | 7:11 | |
Do not bear false witness. | 7:14 | |
Do not defraud. Honor your father and her mother.' | 7:17 | |
And he said to him, 'Teacher, | 7:22 | |
all these I have observed from my youth,' | 7:25 | |
and Jesus, looking upon him, loved him | 7:30 | |
and said to him, 'You lack one thing, | 7:32 | |
go sell what you have and give to the poor. | 7:36 | |
And you will have treasure in Heaven, | 7:40 | |
and come and follow me.' | 7:42 | |
At that saying, his countenance fell | 7:46 | |
and he went away, sorrowful, for he had great possessions. | 7:49 | |
Here is the lesson. | 7:54 | |
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The Lord be with you. | 8:38 | |
Let us pray. | 8:42 | |
Almighty God, creator of life and light, | 8:45 | |
we thank thee for the beauty of thy world, | 8:50 | |
for sunshine and the dark, | 8:53 | |
for the storm cloud and the starry night. | 8:56 | |
We are grateful for the first radiance of dawn | 9:00 | |
and the last glow of sunset. | 9:03 | |
We thank thee for physical joy, | 9:06 | |
for the ecstasy of learning, | 9:08 | |
for problems to solve, and hard work to do. | 9:12 | |
We bless thee for music that lifts our hearts, | 9:16 | |
or the hand clasp of a friend. | 9:20 | |
Supremely, we thank thee for spiritual beauty and hope, | 9:23 | |
for the truth of the prophets and poets, | 9:28 | |
for the healing touch of the great physician, | 9:31 | |
for the awareness of thy presence among us, | 9:35 | |
and for the redemption of the world | 9:38 | |
through our Lord, Jesus Christ. | 9:40 | |
Amen. | 9:43 | |
Worthy art thou our Lord and God to receive | 9:55 | |
honor, thanks, and praise, | 9:58 | |
for by thy will were all things made. | 10:00 | |
Look with favor, O Lord, upon this world, | 10:05 | |
its nations and cultures, | 10:08 | |
homes and schools, | 10:10 | |
arts, commerce, and industry, | 10:12 | |
the occupations and leisure of all. | 10:15 | |
Look with mercy, O Christ, | 10:20 | |
upon all men and every human need, | 10:21 | |
the joy and triumph, conflict and failure, | 10:24 | |
the anxiety, fear, hate, and despair. | 10:30 | |
Look with favor, Lord, | 10:34 | |
upon thy whole church and all her faithful, | 10:35 | |
upon their holy vocation of work and prayer, | 10:40 | |
upon us who offer ourselves and our gifts. | 10:44 | |
Lead them direct thy holy church, | 10:49 | |
that every man and every part may know thee and thy will. | 10:51 | |
We set before thee our land and every nation | 10:57 | |
grant wisdom, justice, and mercy, | 11:01 | |
to all leaders and all citizens. | 11:04 | |
That thy will may be fulfilled in fruitful peace. | 11:08 | |
We set before thee the needs of every man. | 11:13 | |
Have compassion upon those who call out to thee, | 11:17 | |
and also upon those whose want is their only prayer. | 11:21 | |
We set before thee the names | 11:29 | |
of all whose temporal lives are ended. | 11:30 | |
In mercy, remember them and us, | 11:34 | |
when the Lord comes again. | 11:37 | |
Blessed Lord of Word and World, | 11:41 | |
now redeem our days. | 11:44 | |
Make daily work our worship thee, | 11:48 | |
make daily joy our praise. | 11:52 | |
Amen. | 11:56 | |
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, | 11:57 | |
thy kingdom come; | 12:01 | |
thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. | 12:04 | |
Give us this day our daily bread; | 12:08 | |
and forgive us our trespasses | 12:11 | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us; | 12:14 | |
and lead us not into temptation, | 12:17 | |
but deliver us from evil. | 12:20 | |
For thine is the kingdom, | 12:23 | |
and the power, and the glory, | 12:24 | |
forever and ever. | 12:26 | |
Amen. | 12:28 | |
Pastor 2 | The champion football team | 13:07 |
now practicing on the campus. | 13:10 | |
In what is, perhaps, | 13:12 | |
unseasonable weather for such labor. | 13:14 | |
I also give you something of an assurance | 13:18 | |
that not too much will be said today | 13:21 | |
in the way of praising the man with the hoe, | 13:25 | |
or the bent back of American labor. | 13:29 | |
I have planned another tack equally, | 13:34 | |
perhaps, laborious and, hopefully, for in light. | 13:37 | |
Let us pray. | 13:43 | |
Let these words of my mouth | 13:48 | |
and the meditations of our hearts | 13:50 | |
be made holy and acceptable unto thee. | 13:53 | |
O Lord, our strength. | 13:58 | |
I now redeem. | 14:01 | |
Amen. | 14:03 | |
Sometime, during the weeks of this passing summer, | 14:08 | |
perhaps you have caught | 14:12 | |
one of the several television appearances of Joni Mitchell. | 14:14 | |
She belongs to a growing company of American folk singers, | 14:19 | |
including Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, | 14:24 | |
who have heightened our popular consciousness | 14:28 | |
with their lyrics. | 14:33 | |
It was probably The Beatles, | 14:36 | |
who restored the words to pop music in our generation, | 14:39 | |
words that sharpen our psychological perception | 14:44 | |
and our social consciousness. | 14:50 | |
The words of the song are not merely | 14:53 | |
the thumping rhythms of the music. | 14:56 | |
These words have given us and added, | 14:59 | |
perhaps, a fifth dimension, | 15:03 | |
The mind-expanding trip of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. | 15:09 | |
Or, the heartwarming promise of We Shall Overcome. | 15:15 | |
It's the songs of Joni Mitchell | 15:22 | |
that teach us how to put on a day | 15:23 | |
and to talk in present tenses, | 15:27 | |
as well as to take a bifocal perspective | 15:31 | |
on life and love. | 15:36 | |
That accomplishment comes through the popular, | 15:39 | |
"Both Sides Now." | 15:43 | |
A song whose popularity must be accounted for | 15:46 | |
by something than the style, | 15:51 | |
even when it's done by Judy Collins. | 15:53 | |
It might be explained by the light attitude | 15:56 | |
that is expressed in its lyrics. | 16:00 | |
Sometimes, the lyrics will point to an aspect of life | 16:04 | |
that our own experiences confirmed for us as real. | 16:07 | |
We listen and we nod our heads in agreement, | 16:14 | |
for we believe that the words are true. | 16:16 | |
Listen to these lyrics, for example, | 16:20 | |
about the change in our lives, our personal lives, | 16:22 | |
but now, friends are acting strange. | 16:27 | |
They shake their heads and they say, I've changed. | 16:31 | |
But something's lost, | 16:35 | |
but something's gained in living every day. | 16:37 | |
Now, that may sound like | 16:41 | |
a pretty ordinary attitude toward life, | 16:43 | |
but our experience proves to us | 16:47 | |
that it is an extraordinary practice in actual living. | 16:50 | |
Something's lost, something's gained, in living every day. | 16:56 | |
That's the way that we change, | 17:01 | |
the way that we grow, | 17:04 | |
in the loss and the game of living every day. | 17:06 | |
Whether we observe the growth of a living cell, | 17:13 | |
or of a human soul, or of a historical period, | 17:19 | |
we see that growth is gain and loss at the same time. | 17:24 | |
It is both fulfillment and sacrifice. | 17:28 | |
That's a philosopher, | 17:33 | |
or is he a theologian speaking to us, | 17:36 | |
The late professor, Paul Tillich, | 17:40 | |
probably the most influential | 17:42 | |
American theologian of this century. | 17:44 | |
Speaking to us in those closing years | 17:47 | |
of the Second World War, listen to him again. | 17:50 | |
Whether we observe the growth of a living cell, | 17:56 | |
or of a human soul, or of a historical period, | 18:00 | |
we see that life is | 18:05 | |
gain and loss at the same time. | 18:07 | |
It is both fulfillment and sacrifice. | 18:11 | |
The cells which adapt themselves | 18:16 | |
to one function of the body, | 18:18 | |
lose the power to adapt themselves to other functions. | 18:20 | |
Theories of history, which are determined by one idea, | 18:25 | |
suppressed the truth of other possible ideas. | 18:28 | |
Every decision excludes possibilities | 18:34 | |
and makes our life narrow. | 18:38 | |
So Tillich said, what was he saying in those years? | 18:43 | |
Well, at the end of the war. | 18:48 | |
Was it a message just for his own time, | 18:52 | |
or one that states are true for most times? | 18:57 | |
Well, life does not change, | 19:02 | |
through either loss or gain, | 19:05 | |
but life changes through both gain and loss. | 19:09 | |
We choose one possibility, | 19:15 | |
one set of alternatives, | 19:19 | |
only to exclude another, | 19:21 | |
and life changes through our choices. | 19:25 | |
There, I would suggest | 19:32 | |
is a constant source of the new thing in our lives. | 19:34 | |
The changes that come from our choices, | 19:39 | |
even in the process of living every day. | 19:42 | |
You know it's seldom possible to anticipate that new thing, | 19:46 | |
or to calculate its impact on our lives. | 19:51 | |
We might say that that is the very nature of the new thing, | 19:55 | |
that we cannot anticipate it or calculate its effects. | 19:59 | |
All that we can really do, in living every day, | 20:05 | |
is to make the choices in the midst of our circumstances. | 20:10 | |
The choices may not seem to us, at the time, | 20:16 | |
to be that important, | 20:18 | |
and the circumstances may not | 20:20 | |
always appear as significant ones for us. | 20:22 | |
Well, the creation of the new thing | 20:25 | |
comes from choosing faithfully, and hopefully, | 20:28 | |
in the midst of the situations | 20:32 | |
which confront. | 20:34 | |
We cannot calculate in advance, the loss or the gain. | 20:37 | |
And we cannot predict, at the moment, | 20:42 | |
the risks or the fronts. | 20:44 | |
We can only confront the possibilities | 20:48 | |
and make our choices among the alternatives | 20:51 | |
presented by those circumstances to us. | 20:54 | |
It is in the act of choosing, | 20:59 | |
in the moment of choice, | 21:03 | |
that we come to create the new thing | 21:06 | |
in our personal lives and in our common history. | 21:09 | |
Isn't there something like that, | 21:12 | |
that Tillich has told us. | 21:14 | |
The Hebrew prophet told us about | 21:19 | |
doing a new thing in the | 21:21 | |
scriptures of the Old Testament, | 21:22 | |
written during the period of the exile. | 21:24 | |
Those chapters are bound together, | 21:27 | |
you remember, with the writings of Isaiah. | 21:29 | |
But, the meaning is bound up | 21:32 | |
with the larger history of the Hebrew people. | 21:33 | |
The other words of these unknown prophets, | 21:37 | |
making themselves known in the words of prophecy, | 21:42 | |
remember not the former things, | 21:47 | |
nor consider the things of old. | 21:50 | |
Behold, I am doing a new thing. | 21:54 | |
Now, it springs forth. | 21:59 | |
Do you not perceive? | 22:02 | |
The Lord, who is the holy one of Israel, | 22:06 | |
is the creator of the new thing | 22:08 | |
in the history of Israel's people. | 22:10 | |
His chosen people who must decide to choose his way. | 22:14 | |
If they would find forgiveness | 22:20 | |
that liberates them from the old, | 22:22 | |
they must find faith that frees them for the new. | 22:25 | |
The man who is too set upon doing his own thing, | 22:30 | |
may not perceive the Lord, | 22:37 | |
who is doing the new thing, | 22:39 | |
in his life and within his time. | 22:42 | |
'Behold, I am doing a new thing,' says the Lord. | 22:45 | |
'Do you not perceive it?' | 22:50 | |
We shall not perceive the new thing that is done for us, | 22:56 | |
unless we choose to remember not the former things, | 22:59 | |
nor consider the things of old. | 23:04 | |
When we turn our eyes only toward | 23:07 | |
the former things of our lives, | 23:09 | |
the past that we have fashioned in our own images, | 23:12 | |
we shall find only the remembrances of former things. | 23:17 | |
We shall echo the words of the preacher, | 23:22 | |
the spokesman in Ecclesiastes, | 23:25 | |
when he said, in cynical strains, | 23:30 | |
what has been is what will be. | 23:34 | |
What has been done is what will be done. | 23:39 | |
And there is nothing new under the sun. | 23:44 | |
Well, that is an attitude toward life | 23:49 | |
that crowds out the possibilities of doing a new thing, | 23:52 | |
and the choice of our alternative, | 23:55 | |
an attitude that the writer of Ecclesiastes, himself, | 23:58 | |
happily described, | 24:02 | |
is there a thing of which it is said, | 24:06 | |
see, this is new. | 24:08 | |
It has been already in the ages before. | 24:11 | |
Perhaps, it has already been done. | 24:17 | |
Perhaps it has already been before us. | 24:20 | |
But is it not a new thing. | 24:25 | |
But when it becomes my only thing. | 24:28 | |
That story of the young man | 24:36 | |
that is told in Mark's gospel, | 24:38 | |
deals with the choice of alternatives in two ways of living. | 24:41 | |
Both the choice and the alternatives | 24:47 | |
have sometimes been clouded from our view, | 24:49 | |
by the commentary on riches connected with the story. | 24:53 | |
Now, certainly the story is about riches. | 24:58 | |
There is no need to deny that in all three of the gospels, | 25:00 | |
but the story is mainly about a young man | 25:05 | |
who is confronted by the possibility of doing a new thing. | 25:08 | |
He comes to Jesus with a question about life, | 25:14 | |
about the good life, | 25:17 | |
and the conversation turns to his life commitments. | 25:19 | |
'Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?' | 25:25 | |
The young man asks of Jesus. | 25:29 | |
Jesus turns the question about the good life | 25:33 | |
in the direction of the moral law. | 25:36 | |
He rehearses for the young man, | 25:40 | |
the commandments of the moral law concerning the good life. | 25:43 | |
Do not kill. Do not commit adultery. | 25:48 | |
Do not steal. Do not bear false witness. | 25:51 | |
Do not defraud. Honor your father and mother. | 25:54 | |
Patiently, he hears them all. | 25:57 | |
But, this approach to the subject of the good life, | 26:00 | |
abruptly comes to a dead-end. | 26:03 | |
'Teacher, all these I have observed from my youth,' | 26:06 | |
the young man says with an added implication. | 26:10 | |
'Where do we go from here?' | 26:14 | |
Before we listen again for the answer | 26:18 | |
that Jesus made the young man, | 26:20 | |
let us first look at the attitude. | 26:23 | |
The attitude that Jesus showed toward the young man, | 26:25 | |
and Jesus looking upon him, loved him. | 26:31 | |
How much was communicated in a single look, | 26:35 | |
a solitary moment in this dramatic confrontation | 26:42 | |
between Jesus and the young man. | 26:46 | |
What kind of expression on our faces? | 26:49 | |
Well, what kind of gesture with our hands, | 26:52 | |
or what kind of images in our eyes | 26:55 | |
can say that to someone else? | 26:59 | |
And Jesus, looking upon him, loved him. | 27:03 | |
Now, there was his real answer | 27:08 | |
to this question about the good life. | 27:10 | |
The conversation about his riches that followed, | 27:14 | |
brought him face-to-face | 27:17 | |
with his choices, then and there. | 27:19 | |
The response that Jesus made | 27:24 | |
was not an invitation to join a poverty program. | 27:27 | |
Although, that is the way that | 27:32 | |
the words have often been interpreted. | 27:34 | |
You lack one thing, go sell what you have, | 27:36 | |
and give to the poor. | 27:39 | |
It was not a question of what the young man had, | 27:42 | |
Jesus was saying to him, | 27:46 | |
but a question of what the young man lacked. | 27:49 | |
The alternatives were still being set before him. | 27:52 | |
Keep your riches or do what? | 27:57 | |
The answer lies in the alternative posed | 28:02 | |
in the rest of the conversation. | 28:05 | |
Go sell what you have and give to the poor. | 28:08 | |
Now, that much, we have already heard. | 28:11 | |
Listen to the rest that follows. | 28:14 | |
And come, follow me. | 28:17 | |
Now, there was the unexpected. | 28:20 | |
The surprise alternative that was posed to the young man | 28:23 | |
asking questions about the quality of the good life, | 28:28 | |
the challenge to commit himself to the teacher. | 28:32 | |
It was a confrontation with alternatives | 28:36 | |
that offer the possibility of doing a new thing, | 28:39 | |
and forgetting the things of old. | 28:43 | |
How would he respond? | 28:45 | |
The young man of the gospel, | 28:48 | |
to these choices offered to him that day in Judea, | 28:51 | |
by the one called "Teacher." | 28:55 | |
The situation of the rich young man, | 29:00 | |
in his conversation with Jesus, | 29:02 | |
is similar to other episodes in the gospels. | 29:04 | |
The plot of such episodes follow the same line | 29:08 | |
of confrontation, challenge, and choice. | 29:12 | |
The listener is left with a question, | 29:18 | |
quick repeated by Jesus, | 29:20 | |
but who do you say that I am. | 29:22 | |
Here is the confrontation between Jesus and the young man. | 29:26 | |
There are the alternatives suddenly placed before him. | 29:31 | |
What is his choice? | 29:35 | |
Teacher, all these I have observed from my youth. | 29:37 | |
For he believed the promises of the Old Testament. | 29:42 | |
Remember not the former things, | 29:47 | |
nor consider the things of old. | 29:50 | |
Until the young man can find the courage | 29:54 | |
to confront the alternative and to choose the new thing, | 29:56 | |
he remains in the bondage of the old ways | 30:00 | |
and under the lordship of his old lawyers. | 30:03 | |
The possibilities of change | 30:09 | |
are presented in the invitation of the Teacher. | 30:11 | |
Come, follow me. | 30:14 | |
What is his choice? | 30:16 | |
With that saying, | 30:19 | |
his countenance fell and he went away sorrowful, | 30:20 | |
for he had great possessions. | 30:24 | |
The possibility of loss | 30:28 | |
was coupled with the promise of gain | 30:31 | |
in the young man's choices of the good life. | 30:34 | |
The possibilities of loss and gain | 30:40 | |
are discovered within the experience | 30:46 | |
of making choices between alternatives | 30:48 | |
We do not always decide what the alternates will be, | 30:52 | |
we are not such masters of our own fate. | 30:55 | |
But, we may choose between the alternatives given to us | 30:59 | |
within the circumstances of our personal biographies. | 31:04 | |
The alternatives may be shaped for us by the living cell, | 31:08 | |
the human soul, | 31:13 | |
or the historical period that binds us together. | 31:16 | |
The character, Charly Gordon, | 31:23 | |
portrayed by Cliff Robertson, | 31:26 | |
in this year's Academy Award role of Charly, | 31:28 | |
dramatically defines the alternatives | 31:33 | |
by the accident of biology, | 31:36 | |
The retardation of Charly as a biological accident. | 31:41 | |
But, transformation of Charly is a biological design. | 31:46 | |
But, the attempts to change the moronic Charly | 31:52 | |
into the genius Charly only proved futile. | 31:55 | |
The prospect of reverting to his original state, | 31:59 | |
you will remember, | 32:02 | |
is dramatized by the chase through the maze. | 32:04 | |
The transformed Charly is chased by the retarded Charly | 32:07 | |
through a maze like that race by Algernon, | 32:11 | |
the white mouse. | 32:15 | |
The chase ends for Charly, | 32:18 | |
like that for Algernon, | 32:21 | |
in the death of his hopes for healing. | 32:23 | |
Perhaps, we are dealing in illusions, | 32:29 | |
when we talk about our choices in some circumstances. | 32:35 | |
But, it is often a choice | 32:39 | |
between an illusion and the reality | 32:41 | |
that we face in doing a new thing in our living every day. | 32:43 | |
The choices presented to us | 32:49 | |
in the lyrics of "Both Sides Now," | 32:51 | |
also pose illusion as an alternative. | 32:54 | |
The choices between castles in the air | 33:00 | |
and clouds that only block the sun, | 33:03 | |
between fairy tale love and who this illusion. | 33:08 | |
And, even, between life, dreams, and schemes. | 33:14 | |
And life celebrations of joy and song. | 33:20 | |
Such choices may bring us to change, | 33:24 | |
the change that brings together both sides of life, | 33:28 | |
up and down. | 33:34 | |
Give and take. | 33:38 | |
Win and lose. | 33:41 | |
That seems to be where the song ends with such choices. | 33:43 | |
I've looked at life from both sides now, | 33:51 | |
from win and lose, | 33:54 | |
and still, somehow, it's life's illusions I recall. | 33:56 | |
I really don't know life at all. | 34:01 | |
Is there a more positive note | 34:06 | |
sounded in the retrieves of this song | 34:08 | |
of clouds, love, and life, | 34:11 | |
that promises us more than a knowledge of illusion? | 34:17 | |
The promise of life that is free from illusions | 34:25 | |
in our choices, | 34:29 | |
may be the grand illusion of them all. | 34:31 | |
Well, the choice among our alternatives | 34:37 | |
is seldom made at clearly marked crossroads. | 34:39 | |
We often stand at the crossroads, | 34:44 | |
which we do not see, | 34:46 | |
and we choose routes with unmarked destinations. | 34:49 | |
The prophet reminds us of the clouds | 34:55 | |
that sometimes get in our way. | 34:58 | |
Behold, I am doing a new thing. | 35:02 | |
Now, it springs forth. | 35:04 | |
Do you not perceive? | 35:07 | |
And the words of other singing prophets, | 35:13 | |
not written on subway walls, | 35:17 | |
but turned out on spinning wheels, | 35:20 | |
may provide us with a sign for our own times. | 35:24 | |
Didn't you find a directing side | 35:30 | |
to show you the straight and narrow highway? | 35:33 | |
The answer to the question reminds us that | 35:40 | |
the signs are not that direct, | 35:45 | |
and the roads, not always so straight and narrow. | 35:48 | |
Would you mind a reflecting side? | 35:56 | |
Let it shine | 36:00 | |
within your mind, | 36:03 | |
and show you the colors that are real. | 36:05 | |
Let us pray. | 36:16 | |
O mighty God, the creator and sustainer of our life, | 36:22 | |
who brings the promise of recreation to fulfillment | 36:28 | |
along the detours and byways of our ordinary life. | 36:33 | |
Lead us to the discovery of the good life in our times | 36:40 | |
through the power and grace of the incarnate Christ, | 36:45 | |
who confronts our lives and challenges our decisions | 36:51 | |
with the opportunities to do the new thing in living. | 36:55 | |
We might learn to put aside the things of old, | 37:02 | |
and to see what springs forth in our own lives | 37:07 | |
to dispel the cynical complaint thrown at us, | 37:11 | |
that there is nothing new under the sun tomorrow. | 37:17 | |
Amen. | 37:25 | |
(ethereal organ music) | 37:33 | |
(ethereal organ music) | 37:38 | |
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(faint organ music) | 40:30 | |
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(ethereal organ music) | 40:56 | |
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(woman singing) | ||
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(woman singing) | ||
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(woman singing) | ||
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(woman singing) | ||
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(woman singing) | ||
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(woman singing) | ||
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(woman singing) | ||
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(woman singing) | ||
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Let us pray. | 47:36 | |
Lord Jesus Christ, | 47:40 | |
whose presence we have celebrated and known in this place, | 47:42 | |
preserving us the gift of your grace, | 47:47 | |
that, with thankful hearts, | 47:50 | |
we may know and serve you each day in every place, | 47:52 | |
who lives and rules with the Father and the Holy Spirit, | 47:57 | |
one God forever. | 48:00 | |
Amen. | 48:02 | |
The Lord bless you and keep you. | 48:06 | |
The Lord make his face shine upon you | 48:09 | |
and be gracious unto you. | 48:11 | |
The Lord lifts up his competence upon you | 48:14 | |
and give you peace | 48:16 | |
in the name of the Father and of the Son | 48:18 | |
and of the Holy Ghost. | 48:20 | |
(bell tolling) | 48:29 | |
(bell tolling) | 48:34 | |
(ethereal organ music) | 48:45 | |
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