May 25, 2023

Pass the Basket & Online Giving

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Hope Recovery Thursday Night Church

Welcome!

Informing – Announcements

Invitation – Candle Lighting & Preamble

Setting our Intention – Prayer

Connecting – Checking in with each other

Quieting – Music

Come as You Are – The Many

1.
Come you who’ ve been wounded
All you who’ve lost hope
Come you are longing
for what you do not know.

Come you hungry for justice
Aching for heaven on earth
Come you who’ve been tossed aside
And don’t remember what you’re worth

Chorus
Come as you are
Come you weary
Come and lay your burdens down
Come as you are
Bring your hopes
Bring your doubts and your scars
Come as you are

2.
Come you who’ve been cast out
All you who’ve been shamed
Come you who are looking
for that mystery you can’t name

Come you crying for mercy
Hoping for peace on earth
Come you carrying questions
All you who’ve been so hurt

Chorus

Bridge
Oh you misfits and prophets and you sinners and saints
Oh you broken and needy, weird and weary and faint
All who seek to simply open their eyes
All who need to find a safe place to cry

Chorus
Lyrics: Lenora Rand
Music: Gary Rand

Plowshare Prayer – by Spencer LaJoye

Dear blessed creator, dear mother, dear savior

Dear father, dear brother, dear holy other

Dear sibling, dear baby, dear patiently waiting

Dear sad and confused, dear stuck and abused

Dear end-of-your-rope, dear worn out and broke,

Dear go-it-alone, dear running from home

Dear righteously angry, forsaken by family

Dear jaded and quiet, dear tough and defiant

I pray that I’m heard

And I pray that this works

I pray if a prayer has been used as a sword against you and your heart, against you and your

word

I pray that this prayer is a plowshare, of sorts that it might break you open, it might help you

grow

I pray that your body gets all that it needs

and if you don’t want healing, I just pray for peace

I pray that your burden gets lighter each day

I pray the mean voice in your head goes away

I pray that you honor the grief as it comes

I pray you can feel all the life in your lungs

I pray that if you go all day being brave

that you can go home, go to bed feeling safe

I pray you’re forgiven, I pray you forgive

I pray you set boundaries and openly live

I pray that you feel you are worth never leaving I pray that you know I will always believe you

I pray that you’re heard

and I pray that this works

Amen on behalf of the last and the least

On behalf of the anxious, depressed, and unseen

Amen for the workers, the hungry, the houseless

Amen for the lonely and recently spouseless

Amen for the queers and their closeted peers

Amen for the bullied who hold in their tears

Amen for the mothers of little Black sons

Amen for the kids who grow up scared of guns

Amen for the addicts, the ashamed and hungover

Amen for the calloused, the wisened, the sober

Amen for the ones who want life to be over Amen for the leaders who lose their composure

Amen for the parents who just lost their baby

Amen for the chronically ill and disabled

Amen for the children down at the border

Amen for the victims of our law and order

I pray that you’re heard

and I pray that this works

I pray if a prayer has been used as a sword against you and your heart, against you and your

word

I pray that this prayer is a plowshare, of sorts

Teaching & Discussion – Step 5 – Empowered with Information – Meg McB.

Healing – Communion – All are invited to the Table.

All Belong Here – The Many

1.
When you’re not sure who you really are
When all you feel is the shape of your scars
And you have more wounds than you can count
Open your eyes, look all around
You aren’t alone, this is your home

Chorus
Come and remember who you are here
Do this to remember who I am
Come and remember you belong here
All belong here

2.
When you don’t know how to forgive
When locked doors seem like the only way to live
And you’ve got more questions than you can count
Open your eyes, look all around
You aren’t alone, this is your home

Chorus

Bridge
At this table come as you are
Broken and bleeding’s ok
At this table eat and be filled
Come and drink in this grace.

Chorus
Lyrics by Lenora Rand. Music by Hannah Rand