Rent Our Hearts

Lord, in our stillness
understanding the distance
the gap between us
filled only by Christ

Rent our hearts
tear us wide open
a new heart in you
changed to the way

Following Christ
our faces bright with oil
walking with you
communing with our Savior

Rent our hearts
tear us wide open
new creatures in knowing
he is by our side

Christ died for us
taking our poison
the nails on the cross
ours for our sin

Rent our hearts
tear us wide open
crying for the pain
we caused him to bear

March 9, 2011
Joel 2:12-17a
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
John 20:11-18
(“In the Garden”, United Methodist Hymnal, #314)
Prelude
Call to Worship
Prayer for Peace
Communion
Distribution of Ashes
and Ash Wednesday Meditation
by Pastor Ruth L. Foss
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pastorruthfoss
http://www.ahandmaidenofthelord.blogspot.com
A Handmaiden of the Lord
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
March 9, 2011
Ash Wednesday
http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?ptid=16&mid=6710
article, “When did United Methodists start the "imposition of ashes" on Ash Wednesday?”
Season of Lent
&
Facebook message
by Barack Obama
March 9, 2011
http://www.facebook.com/#!/barackobama/
“Michelle and I join with millions of Christians
here and across the world to mark Ash Wednesday.
As we observe the season of Lent, we receive
with thanksgiving this opportunity for grace and repentance,
recommit ourselves to our faith, and
remember our obligations to one another.”
http://www.facebook.com/#!/barackobama/posts/10150107573326749
&
earlier poem:
“Rend Your Heart”

Not in ashes or sack cloth
not in torn garments only
God calling to us
to rend our hearts
to turn from our ways
repent and turn to Him
walking in His ways
drenched in His love
all the rest of our days.

October 11, 2010
Joel 2:12
Joel 2:12-14
Hosea 10-14
Joel 1:1-2:17
http://www.heartlight.org/cgi-shl/reading.cgi?plan=straight&ver=NAS
Heartlight’s Straight Through Bible Study
for September 28, 2010,
read October 11, 2010


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