You Have Come To Us
So, Lord God, You have come to us. You didn't wait for us to become good. You didn't stay until away until we searched for You. You took the initiative. [...]
So, Lord God, You have come to us. You didn't wait for us to become good. You didn't stay until away until we searched for You. You took the initiative. [...]
In our more cynical or despairing moments, we wrestle with faith and with the idea of you coming to us, O God; But, somewhere in our hearts we know, that [...]
Some say this is a faithless world; they grieve the loss of the sacred; they speak with longing of other times when the unseen held a place of significance; and [...]
So many voices, so many words, so many messages and messengers; So many images, so many ideas, so many symbols and rituals; So many paths, so many quests, so many [...]
Miraculous God, We know this story so well. All the characters are familiar. All thewords are known by heart. All the songs have been sung so many times. We love [...]
We praise you, Jesus, because when you chose to come to us, it was not with fanfare and bright lights, with loud pronouncements and noisy celebrations; Nor with dramatic entrances [...]
Like the wise men we come to worship. Like the shepherds we come to see what God has done. And like believers through the ages, we come to give thanks [...]
It may seem naive, in a world of grief, to choose to live in joy; It may seem foolish, in a world where solemnity is power, to sing and [...]
We praise you, O God, that we do not need to search the earth to find you; we do not need to engage in elaborate spiritual gymnastics to bring you [...]
Today, we celebrate your coming, Jesus, into our world, into our experience, into our struggle, into our flesh. But, we need this to be not just something that happened long [...]