Pentecost Sunday was a battle for me ... everything seemed to go wrong! Perhaps that was to be expected, but it's always frustrating when that happens. Yet it was good! My agenda was overthrown by God's agenda, and there was lots of good that happened. Later I was listening to music as I tend to do a lot, and this song below came up on my playlist. I had to laugh, because it so well captures our experience of church! Read the lyrics, laugh, and be touched by the reality of it all.
Any Given Sunday, Carolyn Arends Any given Sunday Folks are congregating In cathedrals and gymnasiums And everything between There’s liturgy that some say And some are rock ‘n rollin’ But rest assured most every one Will take an offering There’s confusion and confession Interruption, intercession Holiness and imperfection Any given Sunday Any given Sunday Preachers do their preaching Some with whispers, some with shouts They all go way past noon And you can count on singing There’s every kind of music There’s hymns and Bach and folk and pop And most of it’s in tune Hearts are mending, hearts are breaking There’s some giving and some taking Some folks find what some are faking Any given Sunday And God is in His heaven, but He’s also in those pews I bet sometimes He’s angry, and that sometimes He’s amused But we can know for certain that His heart is always moved By the praises of His children Yeah, He’s always glad to hear them And that’s why it really matters That two or more are gathered Any given Sunday Any given Sunday We get to remember In the bread and in the wine Just as we are, we come And in those holy moments Every heart that’s tender Joins with those around the world Who love and know the Son ‘Cause there’s an everlasting song The saints of every time belong And we can come and join the throng On any given Sunday And lifted from the comments to this entry: Any given Sunday Always in a rush Children are never ready Car keys lost again Some idiot on the road My blood pressure is through the roof What hope of worshiping now The devil is at it again (By StB's Poet Laureate)
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Brian Hill
2/6/2012 04:07:54 am
I liked the poem which seems to be biased in favour of the worship singing rather than the preaching which I don't think ever gets anywhere new noon at St B! What really struck me was your comment about things going wrong and getting in the way of God's agenda. That has always been a challenge to me: not to get in the way of God's agenda like keeping to fixed timetable for exactly one hour! What if God wants to go past noon this week? May be I should try and add a verse to the poem as I have also been thinking of worship that sends us out renewed by the Spirit...
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Brian Hill Pseudonym NOT THE POET LAUREATE
2/6/2012 04:14:45 am
Any given Sunday
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