Wednesday, 25 February 2009

part 3 Tom, Steph and Eve

Lord, your ways are excellent,
mine are dark, devious and messed up.
Show us how to die, in order to be raised to life to the full.
Lord rip apart the curtain over my self-life from the top down,
just like the curtain was ripped in the temple.
We want to draw near in certainty of faith.
We want our daily experience of life on earth to be so full of You
that we are prepared for Your glory when we're with You in heaven.
In Jesus name

Amen

So we've just said goodbye to Tom, Steph (and Eve.)

The chances are that we are going to live in community in this house.
Sharing life and mission and prayer. Real 'Acts' style communion.
They have some big decisions over their house and we have made a date to start talking about finance and putting our money together.
But despite all the detail to work through, it's so easy to be with them. We've now met them 4 times(!!!!) but i'm sure about this. I feel so relaxed around them, the heart thing is settled.
But this prayer today is so spot on. The veil is going to be removed, this family, who are becoming my family will see me as I am. I have so much selfishness and pride that will be assaulted by the whole challenge of community living.
It's exciting/scary.

Caroline had a great picture of us all holding hands and spinning in a circle in a really fun child-like way, and the circle moved faster and we all leaned back more and the speed increased until it became a tornado that had huge impact on the area around it.
I love that! I want that, I'd love prayers for that.

I really like the leaning back thing, the trust of each other to rely on each other holding us up and to rely on oneself to not let go... just great.

one for the anglicans

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