Call to Worship, Invocation

 

Good morning

It is good we’re here

To worship God

A day that God has made

And placed us in

And we are here

Not all of us

Not all of us within us

Our better hearts or minds

But it is a hard time, you know

You know

There is illness

That has taken us

That we’ve fended off

By sheltering,

Those who can

There are fires across the nation

We’ve been burned

Assaulted, robbed

Hurt in inside places

Where the wounding is

Harder to bear

Everything

And how we’re here is mixed

Some met in the distanced room

More with a technical

Connection

How shall we worship you today,

Across imagined wires

Or separations where we sit

When we are, in fact,

So many parts?

God understands

Our attitudes,

Who better

Who better to forgive

And with perfection

God takes us, one by one

Now altogether

In our twos and threes

Or larger groups,

Unified by unreason

Since we cannot shake each other’s

Hands, which is hard for

The Presbyterians to order

 

Welcome us,

Our presence into you

This time

And always, when it’s harder

In the challenges come after

We worship you

And if we don’t know how,

Write us notes in the sky

Or scratch a gospel in the ground

Or help us with what we have

We’ll try to do our best

Finding humility to face you

A cessation of agendas

We’ll speak

But, O Lord, righteous Lord

And all perfection,

Help us listen

 

Selah

Amen

 

C L Couch

 

 

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