2. The Seedbed of Scripture (Genesis 1:1-13 Space and Place)

The liturgy that we opened with

In the midst of whatever follows, O Lord, let me meet your mercies anew, and anew, and anew.

In the midst of my dismay, fix my eyes again and again upon your eternal promises.

How this ends—that is up to you.

If the next news is favorable, I will praise you for the ongoing gift of life. If tomorrow’s tidings are worse, still will I proclaim your goodness, my heart anchored ever more firmly in the eternal joys you have set before me.

And when, whether days or decades from now, you finally bid me rise and follow you across the last valley, I will rejoice

in your faithfulness even there.

Especially there—

praying Thy will be done, and trusting by faith that it will be done. That it is being done. Even now.

Even in this disquiet.

I am utterly yours, O Christ.

In the midst of this uncertainty,

I abandon myself again to you, the author and the object of all my truest hopes.

Amen

A LITURGY FOR

Seasons of Uncertainty

COPYRIGHT © 2020 DOUGLAS MCKELVEY

Discussion Questions

1. What is something that struck you as new or useful in your understanding of creation and God’s work?

2.   How have you or do you see God working disorder into order in 

      your life?

3.   How can we pray for you this week?