“The Good Place and How to Get There” with Rev. Susan, Annette Boucher, and Brian Shaw

The Good Place and How to Get There

with Rev. Susan, Annette Boucher, and Brian Shaw

In the Television series The Good Place, Eleanor Shellstrop finds that she has died and has been sent to “The Good Place.” Soon she starts to suspect that there has been a mistake – she was mixed up with a virtuous person with the same name – and she actually belongs in “The Bad Place.” Over the next four seasons, the show explores how and why people decide to be good, whether they can become better people, and what the rules are by which we measure virtue. (Yup, it really is a course on moral ethics, disguised as a brilliant comedy!) Aided by the companion book How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur, we’ll explore those same questions.

Order of Service

Welcome “Come, Come Whoever You Are” by Melanie Morel-Ensminger
Centering through Music — “Somewhere in Time” by J. Barry
Chalice Lighting — “All the Lights of the Heavens” by Cynthia Landrum
Opening Hymn — “I Lift My Voice” by Andrea Ramsey
Time for All Ages — “Which Door Do You Choose?” by Erika Hewitt
Singing Out the Children — #402 “From You I Receive”

From you I receive / To you I give / Together we share / and from this we live (2x)

Announcements
Sharing of Joys and Concerns
Time of Reflection
Silence (one minute)
Musical Response — Improvisation
A Few Words about “The Good Place”
Offering — “Gavotte” in G by J.S. Bach
Reflection — Annette Boucher
Musical Interlude — “Allegro di molto” from Sonata in B-flat by Haydn
Message — Rev. Susan
Closing Words – Excerpt from “How to Be Perfect” by Michael Schur
Closing Hymn — #1020 “Woyaya”
Extinguishing the Chalice

We extinguish this chalice, but not the light of truth, the warmth of love, or the fire of commitment. These we carry in our hearts out into the world, until we meet again.

Benediction — #496 by Harry Meserve