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Sarah Laughed
To Laugh or Cry – Reflection
Source: Spill The Beans Issue 16
Often times humanity can cry without ceasing.
Other times people can laugh uncontrollably.
And still many more times the business of life
can have the knack of sweeping us along on a sea of emotion,
sometimes troubled and sometimes still.
How can it be, Lord?
All these things that we read in the Scriptures:
the incidents of mystery and wonder?
The encounters of miracle and marvel?
Children born to virgins,
children born to pensioners,
children born in dramatic circumstance
after dramatic circumstance?
Is it factual?
Is it symbolic?
Is it metaphor for something else?
Like Sarah, I don’t always now whether to laugh or to cry.
My reactions range from keeping my mouth shut
to blurting out questions and comments
that only show my disbelief.
And then I rejoice that I don’t need to know it all.
I find joy in the un-knowing and in the not needing to know.
So I just rest in your sacred presence,
sheltered under holy, loving, caring wings.
Though life can be a tangled web,
I rest in knowing God spins and weaves the threads.
I laugh inwardly and I laugh out loud.
I giggle like a child in the face of life’s wonder,
content to be part of a great big enigma,
sometimes troubled and sometimes still.
God is God.
I am me.
Let it be.
Home Brewed Worship Resources – June 14, 2020
This week’s Home Brewed Worship provides you all a number of ways to enter into prayer and to explore the story. If you’re at home with family, a partner, a friend or a spouse please consider working through some of this with them. If you’re alone, consider phoning someone else and inviting them to join you in worship and prayer.
A special thanks to Margaret Reeson for her work on compiling the order of service for worshipping at home.
Carve out some space sacred space in your home, perhaps you have candle, some colourful material, a cross, a bible, some pictures of the world, artwork or images of Jesus…
You don’t need to use all of this material, nor do you need to do it all in one sitting, perhaps some of these prayers and music can travel with you throughout the week. Use the material as part of daily exercises, music to carry you through the week, reflections to ponder as you walk or stay at home.
For some your focus may be to hear the gospel preached, others the gospel sung, while others may want to find a practice that they can enter into over the course of the week to make space for the Holy Spirit to work on us.
*We know there have been others using this resource in their own homes or communities, if you’d like to have updates and information of new resources please jump on our email list.
Order Of Service
Here is a order of service for people worshipping at home curated by Margaret Reeson
Home Brewed Worship Resources for Families
Resources for families exploring faith at home curated by us for you.
Singing the Scripture
Here is a playlist of songs that you can listen to this week that explore themes in this week’s scripture readings.
Readings
Prayers and Liturgical Reflections
To Laugh or to Cry – Reflection
Visual reflections for this week
Go Deeper
This week is National Refugee Week. Common Grace have a daily resource exploring Refugee Week, you can access it here on their website, or here on their Facebook page
Racism and Reconciliation, a reflection by Rev John Squires
By The Well’s podcast on this weeks Genesis reading, Laughter, Hope & Hospitality
a reflection on this weeks Genesis Reading by Sara Koenig
All-Age Prayer – June 14, 2020
Source: Spill The Beans Issue 16
This prayer is one that you might like to use every day this week, perhaps it’d be a great prayer to start every day.
How good are you at sums, O God?
How many people do you have
when you have two people
and no children?
Add three guests
and a lot of laughter and
we have a number bigger
that the number of stars
in the sky.
How good are you at sums, O God?
From small beginnings
you can make whole nations.
May you be able to count on us,
small though we are,
to make big changes
in the world
as we follow you.
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