DHB MLK Service
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North Shore
Unitarian Church
Deerfield, IL
August 29, 2010
Welcome and Announcements John Bishop
Chalice Lighting
Prelude Abraham, Martin, and John
Dick Holler
Opening Words Duncan Brown
*Hymn #199 Precious Lord, Take My Hand
*Responsive Reading Hope for Tomorrow
Martin Luther King, Jr.
We
have known humiliation, we have known abusive language.
We have been plunged into the abyss of oppression,
And we have decided to rise up,
Only with the weapon of protest.
It
is one of the greatest glories of America that we have a right to protest.
If we are arrested every day,
If we are exploited every day,
If we are trampled over every day,
Don’t ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them.
We
must use the weapon of love. We must have compassion and understanding
for
those who hate us. Love, compassion, understanding.
We must realize so many people are taught to hate us;
That they are not totally responsible for their hate.
We
must use the weapon of love. We must have compassion and understanding
for
those who hate us. For we stand in life at midnight; we are always on the
threshold
of a new dawn.
We must use the weapon of love.
Love, compassion, understanding.
Joys and Concerns/Wheel of Life
This is a time for sharing significant personal
events. Please be brief.
Sung Response #123 Spirit of Life
Carolyn
McDade
Spirit of Life, come unto me.
Sing in my heart all the
stirrings of compassion.
Blow in the wind, rise in the
sea;
Move in the hand, giving life
the shape of justice.
Roots hold me close; wings
set me free;
Spirit of Life, come to me, come to me.
Reading Setting the Scene: the Selma to Montgomery Marches
Duncan Brown
Meditation and Prayer Duncan Brown
Offertory Hear My Prayer
Moses Hogan
(April 2001, M.U.M. Chamber Singers,
Fairfield, IA)
Sermon The Selma March, Dr. King and my Dad
Duncan
Brown
*Hymn #169 We Shall Overcome
*Closing Words Duncan Brown
Postlude MLK
U2
Duncan Brown, solo
*Indicates that the congregation will please stand.
Today's guest, former NSUC
member Duncan Brown, is a fourth-generation UU
and great-grandson of noted
Unitarian minister John Haynes Holmes. Duncan is a
writer and editor, and
teaches the Transcendental Meditation program with his wife,
Dr. Carla Brown, from their
home in Hyde Park.
Thanks
to NSUC members Susan McCracken (piano and synthesizer) and Stan
McCracken (bass and guitar) for providing music for today's service.