I offer this weekly #LetUsPray as a way to stay anchored amidst the turmoil of the day. Paid subscribers have access to liturgical resources and sermon prompts based on the week's readings from The Revised Common Lectionary and/or The Narrative Lectionary.
Summer FAith Montage
This week I continue with the next section of my Faith Montage from Everything Good about God is True: Choosing Faith. I hope some of these passages will speak to your soul. If you are interested in using slide versions, I am slowly litanizing (Is that even a word?) the entire montage. Paid Subscribers have access to a PDF of the entire montage (See below) for personal or congregational use.
I'm back. Sorry about missing last week. The past 10-ish days have been all about getting settled into my SoCal housing and riding a steep learning curve for worship planning. It has been energizing, but a lot.
For those outside the church, I am currently serving as a p/t Transitional Pastor at Pasadena Presbyterian Church in Pasadena, CA. I'll be here for a year-ish helping the community move towards calling a new permanent pastor. When someone like me arrives, there are always folks want things to happen and for me to quickly get to it. Perfectly natural, but whenever I arrive somewhere tasked with some particular tasks, I remind myself not to jump in before I know the people. Getting to know folks before entering any change conversation seems pretty basic, but the tyranny of the urgent makes jumping right in quite attractive.
With this in mind, it seems only fitting that we enter the section of the Faith Montage that speaks the complexity and beauty of God's GATHERED.
Grounded in the Presence of God #LetUsPray
Let us pray —
Created in the image of God, I choose to join with others as God’s GATHERED.
We are the body gathered, beautiful, powerful, holy bodies.
These bodies are of all shapes, sizes, abilities, and hues. These bodies move through the world loving and loved, desiring and desired, healing and healed.
These bodies hold tightly and tenderly the complexities of being: attractions, peeves, passions, scars, successes, traumas, triggers, desires, rejections, revelry, heartbreak, intentions, rage, rapture, miscues, magnificence, contradictions, courage, determination, discombobulation, dwelling, doubt.
Beautiful and complicated creatures seeking and being sought, committed and compelled humans navigating the complexities of the world, and people loved beyond our imagination by the One who beckons us forth.
— Amen.
Again, thanks for stopping in one more time. I appreciate you!
In writing liturgy, I attempt to be economical with words while addressing the events of the day in ways that help people find grounding in their faith. For readings, I refer to the Vanderbilt Revised Common Lectionary(RCL) and The Narrative Lectionary from The Working Preacher(NL). Paid Subscribers should please feel free to use any of the liturgical resources with or without attribution.
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