Every Wednesday we invite you to Pause and Pray with us. Today's reflection is written/curated by Jennifer Lundberg. Image: https://amslerartroom.com/student-work/masking-tape-birches-winter-step-by-step/ Pray: “For Love In a Time of Conflict” When the gentleness between you hardensAnd you fall out of your belonging with each other,May the depths you have reached hold you still. When no true word …
Author: bethquick
25 February 2025 – Chapel
Gathering Music Opening Song Conway G. Gittens/Congregation “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms” What a fellowship, what a joy divineLeaning on the everlasting armsWhat a blessedness, what a peace is mineLeaning on the everlasting arms Chorus:Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarmLeaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms Oh how to sweet to walk in …
20 February 2025 – Chapel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUHnVIBrRI0 Gathering Music “En La Lucha”Words/Music: Mark Miller En la lucha hay vidaEn la lucha esperanzaEn la lucha hay vidaSiempre hay siempre hay esperanza Cantamos en la luchaCantamos por la justicia Cantamos por nuestras vidasSiempre hay siempre hay esperanza Centering Words Juan Martinez From Roddy Hamilton, Mucky Paws The enemy:love them.The oppressor:walk the mile with …
19 February 2025 – Pause & Pray
Every Wednesday we invite you to Pause & Pray with us. Today's reflection is from Daekyung Ko. Image: "Uncertainty" by Yawarth, https://www.artmajeur.com/yawarth/en/artworks/9257830/uncertainty PRAY: God of the unknown, when the path ahead is unclear, when fear and doubt weigh on our hearts, remind us that You are with us. You are the steady hand that guides, …
18 February 2025 – Chapel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nBmHemc8EY Processional “We’re Marching for Freedom”(Words: Anonymous, Tune: Robert Lowry, UMH 733) Come, we anxious ones, And let our groans be heard.We’re Children of the Greatest One, We’re Children of the Loving One;Who calls us to be one, Who calls us to be one. Chorus: We’re marching for freedom; Wonderful, flowing and free;We’re marching onward …
13 February 2025 – Chapel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4RDHDhSZmA Gathering Music “This I Believe”Words: Adam Tice, Music: Mark Miller This I believe,and so I pray:that nothing, nothing, nothingcan take God’s love away.No ruler’s law,and no distress,no, absolutely nothingcan make God love us less. And this I know,that come what may,still, nothing, nothing, nothingcan take God’s love away.No sword, no pow’r,no rise or fall,no, …
12 February 2025 – Pause & Pray
Every Wednesday, we invite you to Pause & Pray with us. Today's Pause & Pray is curated by Director of the Chapel Beth Quick. IMAGE: @naimah_creates, https://justseeds.org/graphic/radical-healing-heart-in-blue/ PRAY Just God, we confess that we have performed horrors and called them salvation. We have deluded ourselves into thinking that we are the heroes, that we are …
11 February 2025 – Chapel
Gathering Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr26iMjsbUk "O Come to the Altar" - Words: Chris Brown, Mack Brock, Steven Furtick, Wade Joye Verse 1Are you hurting and broken withinOverwhelmed by the weight of your lifeJesus is callingHave you come to the end of yourselfDo you thirst for a drink from the wellJesus is calling ChorusO come to the altarCreator’s …
6 February 2025 – Chapel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IITxYDGHYf4 Gathering Music Centering Breath Prayer Rae Guthrie Adapted from Cole Arthur Riley, Black Liturgies INHALE: There is power in this breath.EXHALE: There is agency in this body. INHALE: God, how long?EXHALE: Justice is coming. INHALE: We will not feel guilty for hope.EXHALE: We’ll accept nothing less than freedom. INHALE: I will not make excuses …
5 February 2025 – Pause & Pray
Image: https://www.ignant.com/2018/12/12/the-art-of-waiting/ Every Wednesday we invite you to Pause & Pray with us. Today's Pause & Pray is written/curated by Beth Quick, Director of the Chapel. PRAY (Note from Beth: This prayer is meant for Advent. But it seems very timely in our present season.) In our secret yearningswe wait for your coming,and in our …
