Return to the liturgy library here or visit our poetics library here. Serenity Remix When the tears come search my heart Walker over waters Strange One and remember the trees where we still find each other (in death) God is like a movement For the morning Grieving takes time choosing abortion When it's time to leave On power and forgiveness receiving accountability with openness for the days there is only sadness in the trees for the lips of prophets for the needs of each one Spring Emergence To the God who Dwells in Darkness God within God is... Slow enough to notice litany on vocation...

Greeting Beloveds, today we gather in both sorrow and gratitude to honor the life of X. We have come to shoulder this season of grief together. We lean on each other as we weep, as we give thanks, and as we tend anything that feels unresolved within. As we do, we find ourselves wrapped in the care of Love. The Love that brings all life into being and the Love that we all return to in death. We remember that the veil between the living and the dead is thin and that Love keeps us close to one another forever. In the assurance of this truth, we bear witness to the life of X, and their presence...

Divine Companion, when loved ones, strangers, and kin are tucked away in isolation, fighting for their breath and yearning for home, the chasm between us feels impossible to bear. Will you, Sacred One, whisper to them the words of comfort we long to speak? Will you wrap your embrace around them as if our arms? Let their hands feel our gentle squeeze. Their cheek, our kiss. Upon their chest, a calming hand, a promise of our care through the rising and falling, in every reach for life... Assure them of your love, and ours. Call for a holy cloud of witnesses to surround - draw close every saint...

Processional Welcome: To the friends, family, and friends who are chosen family to X & X gathered here, welcome. Today, we are invited to bear witness to love. Through the families that raised them, their friends who have shaped and supported them, and through their own journeys of learning to love themselves - community has made X & X who they are: [descriptive characteristics] And so today, in the company of God and those who know and cherish X & X, we have the joy of celebrating the covenant they make today in community. A covenant of dedication to the daily challenge of...