Feb 242022
 
 February 24, 2022

Poem for the circle service on Sunday, Feb. 27, 10:30 a.m.

Posted by Rev Roger

Posted on February 24, 2022

“The Summer Day”        by Mary Oliver (1935-2019)

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?

Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

In this annual service for all ages, eleven UUSS children, youth and adults from age 6 to age 90 will each present their two-minute responses to the question, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”

Join us at 10:30 in the sanctuary or in our Zoom stream. Meeting ID: 916 483 9283 Passcode: 1234

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