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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I hope you’re all taking the advice of the experts and practicing the safety measure to keep yourselves healthy and help prevent the spread of Coronavirus.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ll be recording the sermon I would have given today sometime tomorrow and sending it to Michael to put on our UUCP website for you to listen to. When it’s available, we’ll let you know along with step-by-step instructions about how to listen.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It’s difficult, I know, especially for those living alone. That’s why we need to do what we at UUCP do best: practice Beloved Community.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I want to encourage you all to pick up the phone and call each other so the loneliness that can occur with this serious kind of social distancing won’t be so bad. Please don’t visit each other as tempting as that might be. If you live close to someone, go for a walk together but keep the recommended 6 feet distance form each other and don’t shake hands, hug, etc. Maybe just fold your hands and bow!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Also, remember to e-mail each other. Send jokes, poems, recipes, whatever to cheer each other up. Keeping a positive outlook and a sense of humor are really important now!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Below is a poem by my favorite poet Mary Oliver about the Buddha’s last word’s to his followers. Good advice for us today, too. Be lamps. Be Light in the world. Especially now.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Peace and Light,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Paul<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>***************************<o:p></o:p></p><h2>The Buddha’s Last Instruction<o:p></o:p></h2><p class=Lyrics>“Make of yourself a light,”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>said the Buddha,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>before he died.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>I think of this every morning<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>as the east begins<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>to tear off its many clouds<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>of darkness, to send up the first<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>signal — a white fan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>streaked with pink and violet,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>even green.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>An old man, he lay down<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>between two sala trees,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>and he might have said anything,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>knowing it was his final hour.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>The light burns upward,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>it thickens and settles over the fields.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>Around him, the villagers gathered<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>and stretched forward to listen.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>Even before the sun itself<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>hangs, disattached, in the blue air,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>I am touched everywhere<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>by its ocean of yellow waves.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>No doubt he thought of everything<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>that had happened in his difficult life.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>And then I feel the sun itself<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>as it blazes over the hills,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>like a million flowers on fire —<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>clearly, I’m not needed,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>yet I feel myself turning<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>into something of inexplicable value.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>Slowly, beneath the branches,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>he raised his head.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=LyricsNoSpace>He looked into the faces of that frightened crowd.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>~~~ Mary Oliver<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>