Bursting forth, blooming before our
eyes
not some truly gradual event,
unfurling
more like water boiling, suddenly,
urgently
seemingly going instantly from water
to steam
so is the new day, burgeoning,
suddenly upon us
presenting itself as fact, changed
from the night
into the brightening day
Bursting forth, the Spirit, changing
our lives
inexplicably, invisibly, profoundly
our lives not like before, rising on
heavenly wings
our spirits soaring from the lift
the transforming of the Spirit
within
changing us forevermore, different
unlike what we were the moment
before
Bursting forth, a new life, a new
creation
into a new day burgeoning with
promise
filled with God’s grace, if only
we would see it, aware, awake
truly alive in each moment, looking
searching, seeking, the divine here
with us
God’s hand upon us, sharing our joy
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edited
March 13, 2015
A
New Day Burgeons – v4
(editing
version 2)
edited
March 10, 2015
A
New Day Burgeons – v3
(editing
original again)
Edited
September 28, 2013
A
New Day Burgeons – v2
June
15, 2009 to June 17, 2009
A
New Day Burgeons
The
Epistle Reading: 2 Corinthians 5:6-10,
14-17
Sermon,
“New Beginnings”
by Pastor Ruth
Foss
sermon blog
meditation
blog
“God’s
Whisper” blog
Suncook
United Methodist Church
Suncook,
NH
June
14, 2009
Call
to Worship:
It is good to praise the LORD and make
music to your name,
O Most High, to proclaim your love in
the morning and your
faithfulness at night, to the music of the
ten-stringed lyre
and the melody of the harp. For you
make me glad by your
deeds, O LORD; I sing for joy at the
works of
your hands. (Psalm 92:1-4 NIV)
Unison Prayer:
Loving
God, we thank you for this day that we may come into
Your
house and worship You. We ask that Your Holy Spirit
would
fall down upon us gathered here so that we may
understand
all that You would have us hear this day.
We
thank you for the Spirit that you have gifted us with.
We
pray that our worship would be pleasing in Your sight.
This
we pray in the strong name of Your Son, Lord Jesus Christ.
Old Testament Reading: 1
Samuel 16:6-13
*Prayer
of Dedication (unison)
Heavenly Father, you have offered us such abundance.
We are so very blessed. Yet, we often think that we have so
little.
Some of us may even feel as though our gift is too small.
Thank you for reminding us that even our mustard seed-sized
gift may grow beyond our individual possibility. So, today we
place before you all amounts of gifts – some quarters from
children, some $1 bills from adults, some larger bills and
checks – knowing that you transform our scarcity into your
abundance. Thanks be to God. Amen. (GBOD)
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