God’s act of faith at Christmas is to rely on humankind for the plan to work. Our act of faith is to say ‘yes’. we confess, God, that, unlike joseph, we probably wouldn’t have said ‘yes’ that we probably would have scoffed at the question. we confess that if the plan had relied on us,…
i didn’t use this at chapel, but i really like it… we confess that we are searching for more weapons to arm ourselves against the harshness of the world. we search for ammunition to fire at the people who have hurt us and those we just don’t like. we add their wrongdoings to steadily increasing…
a little something from week one of advent, when the gospel reading is Matthew 24:36-44… no-one knows the day or hour… confession we confess that we no longer wait for you, God or the love that comes in your name. we no longer eagerly anticipate the advent of hope or joy or peace because the…
we scarcely dare to open up the parts of our lives we would rather hide for fear they are too ugly to be forgiven: when we have acted out of hatred or mistrust when we have betrayed and broken others when we have thought only the worst of ourselves. we confess these things, and we…
confession 2: in the beginning there was only chaos and disorder and then you breathed life into the world do the same now with the chaos and disorder in our lives – with those parts of us that stifle and destroy, with our recklessness with others and ourselves, with the things we do that damage…
you see all and know all or so they seem fond of saying. you call us beloved. which is all well and good from your side but you can have no idea how hard it is to be loved. [we know the bit inside us which is beyond loving; too awful to be named, too…
Though the system may label us by the charges laid against us God says “you are my beloved” Though the world may think it knows us because it’s read the newspaper headlines God says “you are fearfully and wonderfully made” Though people may hastily dismiss us as worthless and irredeemable God says “i have carved…
off to port phillip maximum security prison this afternoon, to worship with the men there… we are sinners… we are not only sinners we are weak… we are not only weak we fail… we are not always failures we have destroyed… also we have loved you, God, do not limit us to the stories by…
