Liturgies

REFLECTION                                                                                                                                        

Let me bathe in your words.

Let me soak up your silence.

Let me hear your voice.

Let me enter your quiet.

Let me tell out your stories.

Let me enclose them within me.

Let me be the spaces

between the phrases

where you make your home.

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REFLECTION

I choose to believe in One who says it’s never too late to be on this path . . . because it’s really the only path. Not to constantly relive the past and cast blame on those who have hurt us and didn’t teach us well how to open our hearts, but to live now as beginners, each moment like children just starting out.

Kayla McClurg, Inward/Outward, 10/24/2009

14 August 2011

The 9th Sunday After Pentecost

Several times each year, Seekers Church takes time out from its regular preaching schedule for a service of chant, prayer and reflection modeled on the worship of the Taizé Community in France. This Sunday was one such time. Repeating the chants together until they die away into the silence provides rest for our world-weary spirits as well as an opportunity for individual reflection on our faith journeys. As we joined in spirit with the monks at Taizé, we were nourished by their faithfulness as well as by their music.

REFLECTION

When I come and bow humbly before you,

I see how your wisdom breathes in everything.

In these sacred seeing moments

I learn and relearn truths that free me.

Joyce Rupp, Prayers to Sophia, pg 78

REFLECTION

There is nothing higher, nothing more holy [than the body]. It is nonsense to contrast God with the body. Be it the individual human body, or the body of humanity itself, or, indeed, the body of all that was created…. Our hands are God’s hands in the world. Our hearts are God’s heart in the world. God pulsating. God beating. God yearning and open and growing in history.

Carter Heyward, Touching Our Strength. p 140