for Port Phillip Prison tomorrow… still to be tweaked
We’ll be laying out a different image of the balloon girl in the centre of the worship space – towards the end of the service we’ll invite the men to light tealights and place them on the balloons… i love this image, but couldn’t find it in high res so we’re going to print it out small to give to each of the men with the following meditation attached. The bible reading will be Luke 1:26-38
there are few things more fragile
than an embryo of hope
given its chance of life only by those who say ‘yes’
to its promise
like the prophets who said yes to God’s urging
Mary who said yes to an angel
and Joseph who said yes to his Mary
like the people of faith through all of time
who have said yes to the promise of love
and as we sit by the side of our wall
– whatever that wall might be –
surrounded by the rubble and rubbish
of broken dreams and lives
what faith does it take to imagine
an embryo of hope
being brought to life here?
what ‘yes’ are you able to say
for it to be born in our world?
ron cole