Liturgy Heavenly Father, you open your arms to welcome us to this place of blessing and comfort. In turn, we are shown how to open our arms to those around us and to bless and comfort those who do not know you. You meet us wherever we are and invite us to your gentle waters and beautiful meadows and give […]
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Liturgy, Reflection and Benediction 2018.01.28
Liturgy Each person in this room is a kaleidoscope of feelings, experiences, thoughts and skills. Always changing, and always showing a different aspect of God’s creativity. Each person brings a worldview so rich, only their Creator can truly understand it. Our collective body is beautiful in its many parts, but is made truly magnificent when it comes together to seek […]
Liturgy, Reflection and Benediction 2018.01.21
Liturgy Precious God, take us in this morning as a mother greets her child. Wrap your arms around us and smile at our presence. Pick us up from the scrapes and falls we experienced this week. Wipe our noses and cheeks from the tears and troubles we are facing. Show us kindness so big and so full that we remember […]
Liturgy, Reflection and Benediction 2018.01.14
Liturgy “The miracle of life” has become a catchphrase that cannot even begin to contain the actual miracle of your life. The infinite and finite microscopic particles that perform one single minute function to operate one component of one cell on repeat endlessly so your heart can beat, your pupils dilate, your breakfast digest, are miraculous. The electrical impulses that […]
Liturgy, Reflection and Benediction 2018.01.07
Liturgy We gather: a community of faith in God’s subversive world. We gather to celebrate that no darkness can extinguish Light, to remember that Love will always be more powerful than hate, and to trust that Peace will always be stronger than violence. We gather: a people of faith in the Light of God’s world. Welcome to worship. We gather […]
Liturgy, Reflection and Benediction 2017.12.31
Liturgy Almighty God, you have poured upon us the new light of your incarnate Word. As we approach the new year, grant that this light, enkindled in our hearts, may shine forth in our lives toward all people; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and […]
Liturgy, Reflection and Benediction 2017.12.17
Liturgy Sometimes it feels like all we hear are stories of pain and trauma, of fighting and discord, stories of disaster and destruction, of people hurting and abusing each other. We could use some good news. This morning, let us take a deep breath. [pause here for the congregation to take a breath] May we give God the chance to […]