Within the beginning God created us in God’s own image;
God formed us from dirt, yet blessed with Divine visage.
We are caught between the human and the Divine;
participants of God’s kingdom in our midst of time.
Some assume they are keepers of God’s sacred flame,
some seek showers of accolades to cover their pain.
Some even think they are cursed or they are ones to blame;
everything they do in life is steeped in rancor or in shame.
We are all a blend of wounded healers seeking to be healed;
Some are called to be the hands of Christ, others sent into God’s mission field.
Upon you O Lord, we throw pain, our desires, our curses, our rancor, and our shame;
With our whole hearts we seek to serve,
so strengthen us with your Spirit, and give us the nerve;
to speak the truth of love to all,
to seek your voice and beckoned call.
Give us the courage to love all people, those clay formed clods we would rather hate;
Enable us to see their Divine image from within the beginning you did lovingly create.
Almighty God who gives us breath of life, whose reforming light from the divine heart does flow;
Enlighten us, transform us, remold us anew, allow our evolving spirits to thrive and to grow;
Shine on us Almighty God with divine Shekinah Light,
burn away all our illusions, our egos, our thoughts that we are right.
Open our hearts to know the truth, the spark of truth within,
it shines like the Sun above, it is beyond evil and destroys all sin.
It is in Christ that we are all reformed, humanity perfected;
His spark of Glory within our hearts remakes all things defected.
We are caught between the Divine and human;
with Christ who is in the middle;
He is the way the truth and life, the answer and the riddle.
