Chapter Reflection
OUR PLACE - OUR TIME – OUR STORY FUTURE …
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‘The seeds of tomorrow are buried deep in the events of today.‘
Robert Theobald, futurist thinker and author (1927-99)
Since March this year we’ve reflected and shared on: Enduring Story, Unfurling, Invitation to Listening, Deep Communal Listening, and Co-Responsibility.
What resonates/stays with you from your reflection sharing?
WORSHIP
We step out of our every day selves and into this cathedral
of sky and earth and sea where all the parables in life are played out in their seasons
and all the seasons held as one
in the love of God.
Everything here is holy in its being.
Every tree, flower, rock, bird
exists as a prayer of thanksgiving,
and together they speak a chapter in the gospel of wonder which is laid upon our lives.
Eagerly our hearts lean forward,
to listen to the praise of the flowering gum,
echoing in the bright sun,
and to see the shimmering of the divine
behind the surface of each leaf.
Look! It is everywhere!
The love of the creator glowing in mountains and in oceans, in pebble and stem, bird and flower,
and us!
Yes, yes! The light of God in us!
For we too, are sacred.
We too, are named holy.
And the meaning of our lives is thanksgiving.
Joy Cowley
New Zealand author
We are part of the universe story
Our ‘cathedral’ is the cosmos.
