Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto

From Rev. Eva

April 18, 2008
Rev. Eva Českava

Friends, I appreciate all the hugs and support I received Sunday after the service. This 13^th anniversary of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City finds me missing my home church there and the many supportive friends I left behind in 1995.

Below is the poem which church member Carol Davis Koss wrote for the centennial celebration of the First Unitarian Church of Oklahoma City in 1993. Our UUCPA choir’s anthem, the poem set to music by Tom Benjamin, moved many of us yesterday with their powerful and beautiful singing.

May we all find such beauty and power in each other.

Communion

In coats of many colors
embroidered with the threads
of what we’ve woven
through our lives
we come together and exult
in the Now

Through a million errant sounds
we have found each others’ voices
On the melody of chance
on the petals of our dance
we touch and exult
in each other
In the center of each moment
we call Now

In the chiming of our future
in the knell of yesterday
we spin echoes
through our fingers
Palm to palm — hand in hand
spirits holding to each other
in all the colors of the moment
we twine Now

In coats of many colors
on the melody of chance
spirits linked
palm to palm
in all colors of the moment
we twine Now
we exult
in the center of each moment
we call Now