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CLF Announce
UU Resources on Love for Valentine's Day
February 8, 2004

Opening
Chalice Lighting  -  Eric Heller-Wagner

"Blessed is the fire that burns deep in the soul. It is the flame of the human spirit touched into being by the mystery of life. It is the fire of reason; the fire of compassion; the fire of community; the fire of justice; the fire of faith. It is the fire of love burning deep in the human heart; the divine glow in every life."

(http://www.uua.org/worshipweb/opening/heller-wagnerea-chal01.html)

Service: Love and Marbles
Here's an entire service for Valentines's Day - a treasure trove that includes not only the the title sermon by Rev. Jane Rzepka but also works by e. e. cummings, Anna Quindlen, and May Sarton. http://www.uua.org/clf/churchonloan/rzepka/love_marbles.html

Reading  
Looking For Love in All The Wrong Places - David S. Blanchard
"It isn't the kind of love we've been promised in the fairy tales of princes and fairy godmothers, but it is the kind experienced by frogs and dwarfs..."
http://www.uua.org/worshipweb/readings/blanchardds-read01.html

Valentine's Day Sermon
Iraq and Love - Rev. John Buehrens
Dr. Buehrens delivered this sermon last year, before the invasion of Iraq. His blueprint for a foreign policy driven by love offers an intriguing perspective for postwar period as well.
http://www.uua.org/news/2003/iraq/030220g.html

Closing
From the closing reflection, by Rev. Ken Sawyer, for the Love and Marbles service:

Perhaps you are less than you would have yourself.
Perhaps the glory ends up inevitably mixed with shame
and the greatness with pettiness.
Perhaps you feel at times unworthy of the blessing that is life.
      Yes, so do I.
In the end it comes to this: you are human.
      Yes, so am I.
      And I love you for it.
      And I love you for yourself.

(http://www.uua.org/clf/churchonloan/rzepka/love_marbles.html)

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