If you’d like to see some familiar faces and check-in with how you’re doing in these hard times, join us for Wonderful Wednesdays, 5:30 to around 6:15. We’ll chat, then share a brief vespers gathering with some words, music, reflections, etc. You can even bring your supper so it feels a little more like a UUFH potluck!

Speaking of Wonderful Wednesdays, you’ll not be surprised to know I misplaced the reading I’d selected for last week’s gathering. (For me, working from home translates to piles of things that tend to migrate from day to day.)

But the reading has since surfaced, and I share it because if ever there were an in-between time – complete with masks – this is it. It’s titled, “Celebrate the Interval”, and comes to us from UU minister, Dick Gilbert:

Life is a brief interval between life and death;
It is composed of a few notes between Prelude and Postlude;
It is the drama quickly played between the rising and the falling of a curtain.

What shall we do with the interval of time?
What combination of notes shall we play?
What thespian mask shall we wear?

The transience of life tempers our joy;
Discordant notes reverberate the soul;
The ending of the play is ever in doubt.

Yet the brevity can be rich with joy;
A simple tune caresses our ears;
The play produces laughter from time to time.

Why, then, are we so careless with time?
Why do we not sound the music of our hearts?
Why do we not feel the stage beneath our feet?

Is not time to enjoy the interval?
Is not time to play our own melody?
Is not time for us to act out our part?

Life is a brief interval between birth and death.
May we celebrate the interval with joy;
May we sing the song that belongs to us.
May we act as if our very life depended on it.

It does.