Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning,
Psalm 143:8
for in you I put my trust.
Teach me the way I should go,
for to you I lift up my soul
This has been one more busy week! Last weekend I was speaking in Ohio (with The Christian Church – Disciples of Christ). Since then I have completed a couple of important reporting assignments and “appeared on tv“, as well as teaching and writing for our local congregation.
So now – and I think we can all get on board with this – is a good moment for one of those long… deep… breaths. How about going one better: a long deep breath of restoration, in church. The word “inspire” means, literally, to inhale the breath of life. And what better place to take in the life-giving breath of God’s peaceful spirit than in worship?
This, for me, is what being in church is all about. It is finding the life-charged community and then, together, breathing in the life-giving life-sustaining Spirit of God via literal inspiration – the drawing in of life.
Inspiration means to breathe in the life-giving life-sustaining Spirit of God, the drawing in of life
Inspiring Spires:
So I took a few photographs of the steeples – the spires – visible from the Maul-Hall annex here in Tarboro. The Episcopal cross at Calvary next door and the Presbyterian spire across the street. All pointing people – pointing us – to a restorative, spirit inspired, life-giving, God-infused pause on a Sunday morning (and at other times of the week too).
Then a couple of impressions of the Tar river capturing the Saturday morning light, offering that sense of redirection and restoration. “For this is what the Lord says: ‘I will extend peace to her like a river…’ (Isaiah 66:12)”
Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning,
Psalm 143:8
for in you I put my trust.
Teach me the way I should go,
for to you I lift up my soul
In the life-giving name of our God-breathed and inspirational savior, Jesus – DEREK
