Worship/Reflection at "Transformers"

At our 'inservice' conference this week I had the opportunity to develop a 15 or so minute reflection/worship choosing from the next five weeks of lectionary so that for want of a better reason the participants had stuff to use in coming weeks in their context and could relax into the learning, knowing that would pay off later on!!

I was stepping in to one spot we hadn't allocated so it was put together overnight!!

We began with the clip of "Fireflies" by Owl Citywith it's catch phrase about the world 'slowing down.'
Then a simple prayer,

"Surreal, tactile, mysterious and loving God

We worship you in our actions and in our lives

We bring our hopes and our disappointments,

We know your love in our everyday,

And we look for your imprint beyond what we can see.

Help us to make obvious space for you in our lives

And to share the truth of what’ you’ve doing with usIn places you’ve been

before we came along AMEN"

Then a Lament and Owning Up with a lyrical clip of "Fix You" Coldplay

[I didn't do the spelling!!]

Three people read parts of Luke 7:36-50

I played the 'Enough Rope' snippet of the Waifs to female members talking about being called onto stage as back up singers for Bob Dylan's 'Knockin' on Heavens Door'And how surreal it was where one saw it as being 'in' a Dylan song and the other saw it as a missed opportunity.

I talked about this anecdote and discipleship where there are opportunties to be 'in the moment' and we sometimes will get it and sometimes miss depending on a whole lot of things BUT Jesus was one who got it, like when he turned to the woman and spoke to Simon, accepting, noting and caring for her!!
I shared about the 'Bluesfest Easter' experiment and my 'Easter moment' listening to Kev Carmody play "Cannot Buy My Soul"!!

We shared a 'mission moment' by discussing in pairs who or what or where God might be calling us into a mission or discipleshipmoment in our community where we were each from.... being sent out by a re-read first prayer!!