Monthly Theme: Death
Sermon Topic: “Everyday Death”

Tiny Ironing Board
Music: Simon Lynge arr. John Boelling
Text: Simon Lynge

Look at the dancing breeze
Olympic Mountains breathe
Look at your own blue hands
Your feet kiss the land
The sun and icebergs play
Magical disco bay
Feels like a love supreme
A psilocybin dream

Beautiful human you don’t have to be afraid
You go to bed dying and you wake up back where you came from
You gotta let go of material things
Show your real self ’cause your going back where you came from

My eyes are full of tears
Concurrent joy and fears
A tiny ironing board
What do I use that for?
Sacred geometry,
Eternal mystery
Benevolent universe
Whispers in my ear

Beautiful human you don’t have to be afraid
You go to bed dying and you wake up back where you came from
You gotta let go of material things
Show your real self ’cause your going back where you came from

Oh, there are mountains to climb
Oceans to dive inside
You’re a soul on the earth
Searching for who you are

Beautiful human you don’t have to be afraid
You go to bed dying and you wake up back where you came from
You gotta let go of material things
Show your real self ’cause your going back where you came from

The Valley
Music: Jane Siberry arr. Beth Hanson
Text: Jane Siberry

I live in the hills, you live in the valleys
And all that you know are these blackbirds

You rise every morning
Wondering “what in the world will the world bring today?”
Will it bring you joy or will it take it away?
And every step you take is guided by the love of the light on the land
and the blackbird’s cry

You will walk, you will walk
You will walk in good company

The valley is dark – the burgeoning holding
The stillness obscured by their judging
You walk through the shadows – uncertain and surely hurting
Deserted by the blackbirds and the staccato of the staff
And though you trust the light towards which you wend your way
Sometimes you feel all that you wanted has been taken away.

You will walk, you will walk
You will walk in good company

I love the best in you – you love the best in me
though it’s not always easy, lovely? lonely?

We will walk, we will walk
We will walk in good company

The Shepherd upright and flowing – you see.