How do you combine All Age Praise worship with the subject of Trinity?
Not easily – but what fun!
50 of us gathered this morning at Time for God. We looked at Trinity being the love of God and how the three persons within the Godhead are all bound up with other, equal in divinity and being.
Jim did two short readings: Matthew 3:16-17 and Romans 8:14-15 at various points of the service. Interspersed throughout, were a good mixture of songs both old and new: Who put the colours in the rainbow; All things bright and beautiful; Have you heard the Raindrops (to Rupert the Bear music); Spirit of Holiness (Blow the wind southerly) and we closed with Shine Jesus Shine.
Together, we all explored Jesus’ love for us, through his sacrifice and baptism, talking about how baptism brings us into the family of God, thus making us all his children. As a renewal of our own baptismal vows, we washed our hands, pouring water over each other’s fingers and then attaching coloured strips of paper (with the ubiquitous Blu-tack!) onto the freestanding 5 foot Easter Cross as a visual rededication of our lives.
We looked at God’s creation and how we are called to cherish and not destroy it; we planted Sunflower seeds in pots as a recommitment of ourselves to take an active part in looking after God’s world. Pauline took balloons and blew them up to show that we too can be filled with the wind of the Spirit and she had us all writing individual prayers, again which we stuck onto the Cross. These have now been removed and will be put onto the altar at the next Eucharist.
We went away with the conviction that we too can shed Christ’s light and love in the world and we share his love and his light by reaching out to others – not the least in practical ways!
Well, there you go!
Deacon Olivia
I thought there was a real sense of community on Sunday - and that, to me, is what trinity is all about: God is like a circle and invites us into the circle too. We may not have talked too much about trinity but hopefully we lived it !
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