Friday, July 21, 2023

With our eyes on you, we remain in celebration and peace as we journey together on your Ancient Path towards your glorious throne room. We trust in you to protect us from the Deceiver’s snares as we journey together in a good way.

We gather in assemblies and at your Beautiful Gate. We greet and are received by many who are also journeying. We are refugees, wanderers, and outcasts; we are established and blessed when we are in your sacred prayer space. We bear witness to your presence as our everlasting God.

We become aware we are your creation. We have what we have because of your love. We humble ourselves and are content being in the moment with you. We put our hope and trust in you.

In the safety of your sacred prayer space, you turn your face toward us and expose the filth of the wilderness within us. We betray you in our own ways, by what we think, do, and by what we do not do. Yet, you choose to clean us and give us a new purpose. We try to understand with human logic, but your ways are not our ways. You invite us to listen and learn from you, and to participate in your mystery.

We enter your sacred prayer space clothed in the armour of your light. By your grace, we walk your Ancient Path with faith that you are with us; your teachings guide our steps. You reveal to us the power of our words when we walk with you–power to destroy or to restore.

We see the signs of your love for us. Dry places bring forth fruit, rough spots on our path are made smooth. All things occur because of your loving hands upon creation, like a potter’s hands upon the clay. We join in songs of joy, as we all worship you in the time of harvest.