Opening Song: Tend by Emmy Rose, Jessie Early, and Michaela Gentile Lyrics: In the landscape of my life You don't rush through any season You always take Your time A careful hand a gentle guide You take what's dead away And You prune what's running wild (So) be the gardener of my heart Tend the soil of my soul Break up the fallow ground Cut back the overgrown I won't shy away I will let the branches fall So what You want can stay And what You love can grow Through the winter I'm still alive What You've planted in the dirt Is ever reaching to the light You prepare me for darkened times You'll sustain what You have started And You'll teach me to abide I'll remain in You You'll remain in me And I will trust Your timing I'll remain in You You'll remain in me From the start until the ending 'Cause You will know better Passage: Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching[a] of our God, you people of Gomorrah! 11 “What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats. 12 “When you come to appear before me, who has required of you this trampling of my courts? 13 Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations— I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, 17 learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause. 18 “Come now, let us reason[b] together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. 19 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; 20 but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” Musical Reflection: Prelude in C Major, BWV 846 by J.S. Bach Prayer: Father, what we know not, teach us; what we have not, give us; what we are not, make us; for the sake of your Son our Savior. Amen. -Old Anglican Prayer