Come to Our Shut Down Places

I'm going out to the Pauquachin community to work with Rick Wismer, so I pray the following words...for the young people in the Pauquachin band that feel shut down...for myself feeling shut down because of fear, that I'm in over my head, a fish out of water. I surrender everything to Jesus, that I would just empty myself of everything, and be filled by everything that is Him...that I would be nothing more than a humble servant.

It does not come easy to us to imagine that You
closed the womb of mother Hannah
and thereby foreclosed the future for a time.

And yet, we can name in your presence
a myriad of shut down places around us…
those shut down in poverty and despair,
those shut down in fear and in rage,
those shut down by abuse and violence,
too hurt to speak,
too frightened to appear,
too scarred to dance.

And closer, our own shut downs:
in anxiety, in resentment, in pretense,
too weary to care,
too weary to share,
too much of us for neighbor.
These are all your doing, we confess.

But you are the God who opens all shut downs:
by your power, you give futures,
by your goodness, you give hope,
by your mercy, you make new.

So we bid you this day come to our shut down places
and give birth anew.
We pray through the Easter opening of the Friday shut-downs.
Amen.

- Bruggeman, p.119, Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth

Comments

Yeah, I was wondering what's with the pink letters...

Paige

[ron cole]

Hi Paige, I have a confession to make, " I'm colour blind." So help me out here, which colors are pink? I'd ask my daughter but she's not home at the moment. It's crazy, because pink is not one of my favourute colours (LOL). Peace...Ron+

Hey, thqat was weird it just turned grey as I read your comment. peace out man (as my son would say)