Heart Songs Setlist from Jun 7

Here's the songs we sang on June 7:

1. Come, come, whoever you are (Rumi/Dale Zola)
2. Welcome here (Rachael Weasley)
3. How Sweet the Sound (Doug van Koss)
4. Always (Grace Lee Boggs as quoted in Emergent Strategies by adrienne maree brown/Nathan Holst)
5. Hymn for the Russian Earth (Yuri Zaritsky and Eugene Friesen) - led by Janice
6. Loosen, Loosen (Aly Halpert) - led by Nancy
7. Stone by stone (Taya Ma)
8. Healing is Possible (Orion Johnstone)

Join us online (7/5) or in-person (6/21)!  

Summer 2021 Heart Songs Plans (tentative)

We at Points of Light Music are looking forward to expanding our Heart Songs singing gathering beyond zoom while the weather is warmer at 45 degrees latitude!  

Our summer plan is to keep to the biweekly schedule and split the time online and in-person.  Starting in June, the first Monday will be online with the third Monday being in-person at a not yet decided location in the Twin Cities.  At least until we have 5 Mondays and then it will shift, i.e. August.  

The summer schedule looks like this:  

• June 7: online
• June 21: in-person

A Litany on "Be Dissatisfied"

On Tuesday, April 20, 2021, a Multifaith Prayer Vigil gathered at George Floyd Square following the reading of the thrice guilty verdict of Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd.  It ended with a Benediction by the Rev. DeWayne Davis, excerpted here.  

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The whole Benediction is embedded below.  Thank you, Minnesota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Alliance (MUUSJA), for capturing the whole thing.  

The "Be dissatisfied" line resonated with me so powerfully.  I wrote to my pastor colleague when I got back to my car, pondering aloud how it might show up in worship on Sunday.  He mentioned his sermon or benediction and also encouraged what might show up for me.  The next morning a draft of this poured forth.  

--
With the death of beloved children of God,
     Be dissatisfied!

Read My Grandmother's Hands: Spring-Summer 2021

We're facilitating a book read of Resmaa Menakem's My  Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies*, with Music that Makes Community this spring-summer.

If you've read our Reflection for the UCC Musician's Association, then you know how transformative this book is.

Would you like join us?  

Here's the overview: