Joining the Song :.

Last night at Abbey Way--as customary--we held hands sang our Creed Song and then the Our Father. This moment of our service, gathered in two concentric circles around the altar, is a hallmark of our weekly worship. It is a holy, crazy time of children swinging their arms in delight, people interacting through accepting eyes and nodding hands, together proclaiming with our voices the prayer of the church.

"Our Father, who art in heaven..."

Something always catches my heart during this prayer. Sometimes my heart is touched by the richness of Kingdom truth. Other times there is a holy moment transpiring right before our eyes if we only are present enough to notice.

Last week it was two little people, both near the ripe old age of two, hand in hand entering the circle and its sacred madness, walking with us as we sang. Tentatively yet triumphantly they did it (!) and we all were part of it. This week it was a little guy named Samuel who at the ripe old age of two was singing the "Our Father" as his father held him in his arms. You can't get much better than that for an OH WOW MOMENT!

Sometimes I get discouraged in shepherding Abbey Way. There is so much to church planting, pulling and tugging at me each day. It can be overwhelming. But then something happens right in front of my eyes that is unmistakably a gift from God, the warmth of the Spirit's breath in my face. God presence is revealed in two little people joining the circle and taking their place or a little tiny voice singing the prayer that Jesus taught.

Something mysteriously grace-filled has been part of this journey from the very beginning. In and through it, I can see Christ.

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[sleepingwithbread]

Something Grace Filled from the beginning . . . I have seen it too!!! You and Abbey Way are in my prayers . . . always!!!