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.