Father combines readings from Rachel Starr Thomson's Heart to Heart: Meeting With God in the Lord's Prayer with music and dance to create a powerful meditation on the best-known prayer of all time. We've compiled a few of the readings below. Enjoy!
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from Part One: The Garden
Once, a very long time ago, there was a garden.
Six days of uproarious joy created it. Out of darkness came a Voice, and then light, galaxies spinning, earth and water, wings and running feet—life. There was nothing, and then there was colour: green trees, blue seas, shimmering grey mists. And a garden.
Then the One to whom the Voice belonged stooped down and made something with His hands. He “formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
There was life before Adam, but the dust-man had something the other living creatures did not have. He was a living soul. Somehow his existence, his being, reflected the Being of his Creator. The Living God and the Living Soul fellowshipped together in the garden. They walked together in the cool of the day. Their relationship was the heartbeat of Eden.
from Part Three: HallowedAs I get my eyes upward, past the darkness to the God who still reigns on high, His character begins to work in my life and counteract the darkness. And so I have witnessed holiness here on earth. In the love between a man and woman at the altar. In my baby sister’s face as she sleeps. In the movements of a dancer and the strains of a song. In grief and in comfort. The sacred has come into the common things of life, and the words of Isaiah 9 are true for me today: “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.”
“Hallowed be thy name.” In Jesus’ prayer, these words are wings. They are meant to carry us beyond ourselves, beyond this world, beyond everything that holds us down. Look to God, for He is holy.
from Part Seven: Thine IsHumble God dressed like a man; Righteous Man speaking like a God. We were meant to worship worthiness, hallow holiness, and follow greatness to the death. Open our eyes and ears and hearts to know in You the One King above all gods.
Exalted Lord washing feet like a servant; Eternal Servant claiming our allegiance. To you all loyalty is owed. We shall worship through calm and tempest; we shall trust You in darkness and light; we shall live our lives last so that You may be first. In Your reign, in Your rule, we shall bring every strain into the Song of Love, and the Earth shall be filled with the knowledge of God as the waters cover the seas.
For Thine is the Kingdom.