Worship today at Rising Hope was great. Jessica Fisher and I led the noon prayer service and she had awesome insight from God for exactly what was needed in worship today. The worship service was all about creation. We began by welcoming everyone and having praise and prayer to God that we woke up today and we were able to enjoy creation. We sang Morning has Broken and Then Jess read the creation story from Genesis 1 in the CEB translation and had everyone close their eyes and listen for a word or focus on an image. We had a time of silence and then I read the same passage in The Message paraphrase. We reflected and then it was open to a time of sharing. We closed with the chorus of Alleluia. I sang the first verse the women sang the second the men sang the third and then all of us together sang the last to emphasize the point of creation building upon itself to the crescendo of all the earth praising and lifting up the name of God.
We usually have lunch after but I had to go to the nearest walk-in clinic because my cough and cold have gotten a bit worse. I went to this thing called Patient First. If you have never heard of it, we need one in Delaware. It is a walk in primary care doctor facility that is set up like an emergency room. It has like 25 rooms and a complete pharmacy. I was in and out in an hour.
I led the devotions today for our group and I compared our immersion experience to the Hokey Pokey and the scripture when Peter walked on the water. We sometimes experience God by putting just part of ourselves in his care but it is only when we jump in with our whole selves that we get fully immersed by God's Grace. God doesn't want part of us, God wants our entire beings. Strip everything else away and be immersed in the entire love of the Christ!
We had to help set up for the hypothermia shelter tonight and the woman I told you all about in a previous blog (the one we got the phone card for) was there and she is really sick and not doing well at all. I started to think of what may happen to her and the tears just started to well up. I found out that while one of her sons is in Texas, the other is in prison. I don't know too much about her story but she really doesn't have anyone near. So I was thinking does anyone really hear her cries? Does anyone hear our cries? Does the church hear the cries of the world? Rising Hope does a great job caring for those in this area but what am I doing as an individual and how am I leading the church into true listening of the cries of the world.
Lord, more than anything else I want to listen...
Switching gears...Rick Majors mom passed away today...to all who read this blog please be in prayerful ministry for him and his family during this time. Love you Rick!!
Well, I took my prescription Mucinex and took my first dose of some serious cough medicine...
Esperanza!
Pastor Scot
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