On my first Sunday at Canterbury (July 5, 2015) I invited everyone in worship to listen for a word or phrase in the readings that spoke to our best hope or prayer, or God's greatest dream and call for us, as we moved together into a new day in our life as a household of faith.
We wrote these words and phrases on silver stars, which have been hanging on a silver tree in Beckett Hall for the past month.
Today I took the silver stars down from the tree, and recorded the words and phrases, below. I invite you to take a moment to prayerfully read through the list.
Which words and phrases, in particular, catch your attention?
What themes do you see?
What might God be calling you towards, through these words, in your own life?
What might God be calling us towards, through these words, as a community of faith?
- justice, patience, humility
- worship as we choose; say what we choose
- peace
- patience and gentleness amidst chaos
- love God and love one another
- do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with our God
- harmony, happiness
- love the strangers, grace, peace, walk humbly
- love mercy, together, magnanimous peace, equally, dissolve the political bonds, God gives us to see the right, love the strangers, love your enemies
- a people at peace, created equal, malice towards none
- with charity for all
- with malice towards none
- almighty, love, respect, peace
- joy, peace, love
- peace
- I too am America
- "He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things that your own eyes have seen."
- to be a refuge from darkness
- tomorrow I'll be at the table when company comes
- delight
- charity, mercy, community, justice
- equal, harmony, perfect
- knit together, glory in his bosom
- we each hold these rights equally
- we must be willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities for the supply of others' necessities
- abridge our superfluities for others' necessities
- wise, equal, trustworthy, faithfully
- a new day, start, a new act
- love the stranger, walk humbly, grow strong, no one person
- in His light, let us see our light
- gather together, lasting peace
- counsel, worship, peace
- together
- love the stranger
- cultivate peace and harmony with all
- great and awesome things...we must delight in each other...with malice toward none, with charity for all
- a new day
- serve the neighbors
- care for others
- cultivate peace and harmony with all
- enlighten us
- no one person is more entitled to any of these rights than the next
- cultivate peace with all
- cultivate peace and harmony with all; we must delight in each other
- serve the neighbors
- to care for him who shall have borne the battle
- serve the stranger
- God who is not partial and embraces all
- all are created equally
- I, too, am America
- love your enemies
- liberty
- grace
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