The Third Week of Easter: From FEAR to FRIENDSHIP
Photo: Pastor Tom Jenkins
STEP ONE: BREATHE
Take a deep, cleansing breath. Allow the air to fill your lungs and expand your body. Exhale and empty yourself into the room. Repeat three times - once for the one who Created you, once for the Incarnate One who walks beside you, and once for the Spirit whose life fills your being.
STEP TWO: DWELL IN WORD
“Look at me. I stand at the door. I knock. If you hear me call and open the door, I’ll come right in and sit down to supper with you.””
Song: The Love in Your Eyes
How much is enough to put away my fear?
Aching heart -- desire never satisfied.
Can I let it go? Open my right hand.
Will I clasp and clench until I die?
Suspicion comes again, past once noble defense.
Trusting heart down in disrepair.
In my little room - solitary man.
Not so much a place as a nowhere.
You come into my room without knocking
With truth as a light exposing my lies.
A meal is prepared and the table is set.
My fear and despair are displaced by the love in your eyes.
Thoughts curve in and then, I turn them all around.
I conjure meanings in and out of phase.
I know I need some help to see reality
I need a guide to make it through the maze.
Age old rebellion ---
It’s the problem with us all ---
Stumble around in the darkness till we fall ---
“Age old rebellion -- Part of what we are
We all try to run -- but only can get so far! “
(chorus)
STEP THREE: PRAY
Risen Christ, Loving Friend, give me the willingness to open the door to your presence. And when I am stuck in my ways of wilful isolation kick the door open, like you have done sometimes in the past. I know that you regard me with a gaze of pure love. When I see that in your eyes my fear and despair are displaced. So come in. Let me see as you see. Amen
Today’s devotion is by Pastor Steve Thompson (song/prayer) and Pastor Tom Jenkins (photo)
Song ©2020. Steve Thompson.
Image- © 2020. Tom Jenkins.
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