Finding Time - Rev. Jay Wolin

Opening Words in Service today at the Unitarian Universalists of Sarsota

"Welcome
Welcome to this place of fasting. 
Welcome to this place of respite
Welcome to this place of challenge
We find the time 
To come together even if it is for just one hour
To just sit and be
To be with yourself
To be with and for your fellow congregants
Together on the religious journey
No phones to answer
No decisions to be made
No judgements given or received
To accept that we live in a world
With the need for balance
To build resilience, to build peace
Contrasted with the need to be unbalanced
If anything is going to change
And to live with that paradox
Among the myriad of choices
That call to us
Demand of us
Ask of us
For a piece of us
But for this moment, in this hour
We resist that and 
We recognize 
The holiness 
In ourselves
In each other
And the holiness in time itself
As we light our chalice
Let it remind us of the light within us 
That always needs to be rekindled
Again and again, and again
Let us be that spark for each other"