EXODUS RITES
Opening
     Leader:  Let us come to terms with life.
Group:   Our life is in the human struggle.
The struggle is painful and deep.
The struggle holds death and life.
Leader:  Out of the struggle of the now we will
create the human world of the future.
Group:   The past is approved.  The present is received.
The future is open.
Closing
 Leader:   We stand before the up-againstness in life.
     Group:    We stand before the possibility and hope in life.
Leader:   Our hope is in our decision to embrace all that is,
as that out of which our life will come.
Group:    We decide if death is life, and if life is death.
We will create a human world by deciding to live
the life we have for the sake of humanity.