Liturgy Weariness fills our bones, Our aching bodies swell. Friends, how can we endure? We look to those who have come before us— To Moses, whose feet had known only trouble Until you planted them on holy ground. Our spirits are freighted With the pain of those we love, Friends, how can we rise to comfort them? We look to […]
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Liturgy, Reflection and Benediction 2019.8.11
Liturgy Welcome Vox. Welcome to this safe space, this holy place where our faithful endurance has brought us together. It’s true, our endurance is often sourced from the pain and challenges of daily life, but let us now rest, be, and breathe. Let us lean into each other, God’s word and its truth, letting the Holy Spirit flow and be […]
Liturgy, Reflection and Benediction 2019.8.4
Liturgy We are beloved fools, all of us, for believing the airbrushed lies and shrink-wrapped promises of the voices that whisper you are not enough. This morning, Vox family, may we attune ourselves to the stern voice of compassion proclaiming in our midst: Relent. Be loved. That same voice tells us, too, the hard truth we labor to avoid—that we […]
Liturgy, Reflection and Benediction 2019.7.28
Liturgy As we enter into this time and space, let’s invite our bodies and minds to settle in. Let’s feel our feet grounding, and our breath inviting life. Welcome here what is present now. Gather your brokenness, gather your longing, and welcome what is present now. Come, healer of the body. See where darkness yields to light. See where light […]
Liturgy, Reflection and Benediction 2019.7.21
Liturgy Pay attention to your breathing for a moment. How it rises and falls, rises and falls, the breath is like love, persevering, enduring, giving, and trusting in it there is no pretending, pretense, or posturing. As we effortlessly receive the nourishment of the breath, may we also join together this morning in training ourselves to effortlessly receive the nourishment […]
Liturgy, Reflection and Benediction 2019.7.14
Liturgy Open your eyes, friends, and see all that is around you. Close your eyes, friends, and see that which is inside you. Open your ears, friends, and hear the message of love. Close your ears, friends, and hear what you say to yourself. Open your hearts, friends, and become vulnerable to the one who has shown you mercy time […]
Liturgy, Reflection and Benediction 2019.7.7
Liturgy We gather together in the presence of a God whose love is freedom, whose touch is healing, whose voice is calm. We meet not in our own strength but in the knowledge that God’s Spirit abides within us, in our liturgy today and in our daily lives when we depart from this place. The blessing receive is shared, in […]