Inside Out
It’s not always comfortable, God, but it is certainly good, that you go straight for the heart. You do not allow us to skate over the surface of life, filling [...]
It’s not always comfortable, God, but it is certainly good, that you go straight for the heart. You do not allow us to skate over the surface of life, filling [...]
How hard we make things, O God, how heavy the yoke we place on ourselves through our insecurity and pride, through our fear and unbelief, through our denial and stagnation; [...]
Here in this place of gathering, we bring our lives and our selves to you, O God. You know all that we carry as part of what makes us [...]
Why do you bother, Jesus, when we are so certain that we can create life for ourselves? When we try to pretend that we aren’t frightened of those different from [...]
In the noise of ideologies and agendas, you gently whisper, O God; In the cacophony of rhetoric and propaganda, you gently whisper, O God; In the madness of [...]
Lord Jesus, in You we recognise what life can be: Recklessly loving, abundantly forgiving, and limitlessly free. Thank You for offering this life to us again, now. Thank You for [...]
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 [...]
How we underestimate your compassion, Jesus; we are too easily convinced that you frown more than you smile, that our weakness and ignorance, our mistakes and sins, guarantee nothing but [...]
You are so extravagant, God! Throwing Your truth and grace out into the world like a carefree farmer sowing life’s seeds with no concern for where they may fall. [...]
O Divine Lover, who constantly stirs the waters of our souls, unconcerned with the debris and dirt which has lain hidden in the depths for so long; who gently lights [...]