coming up... & going down

8 weeks until the "Celebration in the heart weekend" it starts Friday 14 July- all are welcome. Please pray also for the community of Ali Curung- there is unrest at the moment and the community needs our prayers. (It is unlikely the cross will go up this year with the current situation in Ali Curung) We believe it still will be a great weekend of fellowship, sharing and worship. God bless you. Paul&Rachel McLaughlin

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O God it's only 8 weeks til that time -
the "Celebration in the Heart Weekend".
Please use it to fill YOUR folk with new wine;
that their skins, and their structures will all wend

(that's under your influence Holy Wind,
or Holy Breath that breathes the holy life,
or Holy Spirit which has never sinned)
towards the flexibility of "wife",

or mother with babes, or of children small,
whose lives are living under love's choices.
So may we flex to hold love's wine installed
within these skins, instead of loud voices

of protest - that we are being summoned
to follow Christ (though we have done no wrong!)
Although on Good Fridays - all are welcomed.
We pray also for all Ali Curung -

where there's unrest this moment. Hear our prayers.
(May all your people take up their crosses
on each day of the year which they find theirs)
Oh may't be a great weekend though losses

may still be real, for that man of sorrows
will still be there, with his acquaintance - Grief.
And may their fellowship (these tomorrows)
be in his sufferings (as he's our chief).

For then we know that we'll share his glory,
not as prize to bribe us but as "birth-right".
We are glad to worship God whose story
still blesses us, so we bless  you - OUR LIGHT!