Here a few wee things from tonights communion "Four Rooms for the Transfiguration". Instead of having wee stations we dedicated four rooms to different ways to engage with transfiguration.
Room One: The Waiting Room. Stories of those who have waited for God and how waiting brings transfiguration in terms of hope and longing and promise and the way you live your life. Simeon, Mary and Isaiah were all pasted across the walls.
Room Two: The Lighting Room: A single candle in a dark room and a retelling of the transfiguration
Room Three: The Newsroom. Different household objects were covered in newspaper and we prayer seeing the world through transfigured eyes, through gospel eyes, through the manifesto of the Realm of God, through the works of Jesus
Room Four: The Dining Room. The glory of that mountain is here in everyday things like bread and wine.
From Room One:
Beyond the words we can yet use
and the time we yet have
and the feeling we have yet to experience
and the truth we have yet you hear
and the vision we have yet you have
and the taste we have yet to know
and the heaven we have yet to believe in
you are
waiting
Beyond the journey we have yet to travel
and the news we have yet to read
and the song we have yet to sing
and the aha we have yet to have
and the death we have yet to face
and the light we have yet to feel
and the place we have yet to go
you are
calling
Beyond the colour we have yet to see
and the story we have yet to hear
and the dance we have yet to dance
and the living we have yet to live
and the suffering we have yet to suffer
and the mountain we have yet to climb
and the Jesus we have yet to know
you are
transforming
us
now
We do not need to know
before we know
come now
O transforming Spirit
that you may reshape
this journey
and this story
of grace
So be it
From Room Four:
And we gather
in the world
for a piece of heaven
to reshape
and send some lightning bolt
through injustice
some white noise
across the lukewarm talk of leaders
some silver glory
into the poverty of the world
and we wait
and God offers us
bread and wine
crumbs
and fruit juice
to compete with the splitting of the atom
the Oscars
royalty
the stockmarket millions
the fat cat paycheques
the glory of the world
beside the glory of the kingdom
and God offers us
bread and wine
(pause)
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