This Hope That We Make

Life comes for us In a thousand different ways Undoes plans and upends traditions Knocks down the doors of our defense In a moment Every expectation releases Like the in and out of breath Life is urgent and also, unbearably slow And does not take well To our fantasies of control. We gather here to practice Surrendering to the waves of grace and grief In song, in silence, in story We come to remember the possibility Of a larger call, That we might offer our gifts with a surprising generosity That we might release ourselves From the needing to know That we might simply be present To this beauty, these partners, This hope that we make Together Come, let us worship Together.