Monthly Theme: Trust
Sermon Topic: “Roots Hold Us Close, Wings Set Us Free”

i carry your heart with me
Music: David C. Dickau
Text: E.E. Cummings

i carry your heart with me
(I carry it in my heart)
i am never without it
(anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing; my darling)

no fate (for you are fate, my sweet)
i want no world
(for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart
(i carry it in my heart)

On Children
Music: Ysaye M. Barnwell
Text: Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children;
They are the sons and daughters of
Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you
But they are not from you
And though they are with you

They belong not to you.

You may give them your love
But not your thoughts,
They have their own thoughts.
They have their own thoughts.
You can house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in a place of tomorrow,
Which you cannot visit,
Not even in your dreams.
You can strive to be like them,
But you cannot make them just like you.
Strive to be like them
But you cannot make them just like you