How might your life be different if you grew up with Father God and Mother Goddess, instead of just Father God? How might your life be different now if you invited in the Divine Feminine? We are all a mix of feminine and masculine, different parts in different people making a divine whole.
The service will offer several vocalists performing songs that will remind us that everyone has love and everyone has loss, yet we all must come together to continue on this journey of life. This is an entirely music-filled service.
The sermon title is an attention getter and the subject will be based on Richard Dawkins book, The God Delusion. While most books on atheism focus on contradictions and inconsistencies in historical texts, Dawkins looks at the effects of belief in a deity and how unlikely it is that anything that is proposed to be our deity could be effective in bringing about the objectives of the organization espousing the stated "God." There will be humor, thought, and hopefully clarification for agnostics.
Quote by Mark Twain when asked at an advanced age if he feared death: "I have been dead for millions of years before I was born without the slightest inconvenience."
By this sermon, my daughter will have travelled to her next phase of life, having graduated from high school, so this topic is very much alive in my days. Letting go and letting live can apply generally to most events in our lives, for transformation is the way of things. Changing relationships, changing abilities due to age or injury, parenting adolescents, friends moving away—we are constantly practicing letting go and letting live.