On Sunday evening we reviewed the past term's events and prayed about where we've come from and where we're feading. Here are the scribbles, prayers and thoughts we wrote down,in no particular order:
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Very good that AW has moved out into bigger spaces of St Stephens and St Luke's main worship events. Good to continue to find opportunities to move out of St Augustine's Sunday evening slot.
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Thankful for this great space to be in (physically in the hall and the wider church that gives permission and freedom)
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AW has enlarged my life - my experience of God, my relationships with others and has increased my reach as a person.
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Drawing disparate people together.
Giving voice to the frustrations and longings of many.
Trying - even when we fail.
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Community.
Mission.
Challenge.
Going beyond only being a group twice a month
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Thanks:- God enabled us to do new stuff -> experimented, taken some risks (e.g. St Stephen's, Greenbelt, Diocesan Music Day.
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Thanks:
- we've seen people encounter God's kingdom
- we've seen people become more integrated
- people who wouldn't otherwise have come, stayed and created church
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What would it be like to explore our common life together, other than through running events?
Could we explore an Ambient Wonder 'way of life'?
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Allow us to help each other get to the place of the 'Unknown' - don't let us forget that you made it possible, make all things possible.
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Steps to other places, places we have never thought of, places we are scared to go, places we don't know will be there, places You want us to go to.
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Let your breath fill our sails and move us in the direction You envisage for us.
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HOW - let us be inspired
WHO - help us to be inclusive
WHAT - keep our creativity wild
WHY - keep our motivation pure
Help us to know what is in your heart for others.
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Father God, I pray that you will lay us open, cut us open and place your desires in us, help us to cry with your eyes and let our hearts ache. Then fill us with your creativity....
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We need to go down as well as up
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Creativity flows and our Creator God flows through us.
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giving away power is liberating and makes more space for our sould
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The Tallis scholars music links us so much with the past - looking forward is difficult - we can't see a clear path - it is scary and yet exciting
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I pray that we will find freedom and grace in AW, and not burden and frustration
I pray that we will challenge ourselves others and our own expectation
I pray that AW will draw many or at least a few really close.
I pray that truth will be self-evident in what we do.
In the name of Christ, Amen.
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exciting to be moving out of words. Experiment with silence, colour and simplest music and movement. To be wordless, music should be without words.
-----May children find their place
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Somewhere where the scales drop from people's eyes and they see our wonderful glorious God, for the first time.
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Make us community (as we are tonight)
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Let us be the door through which people come to meet You and You show yourself to us
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The beauty of You
the glory of You
The Ambient Wonder of You!
You are an amazing God and I thank you for the touch of your hand on AW.
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Out of chaos comes a beautiful You.
Help us not to loop past You. Keep us fixed on You. Sometimes smooth, sometimes scratchily but always making a mark.
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Grace
opening up
surrender --finding a path
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my ideas my ego
narrow view fitting in
the journey's to the centre....
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Kenosis ? Apophatic - Cataphatic. How link?
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May AW be something that shapes the whole of our lives
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A theme: WORKING TOGETHER. Everyone who comes is involved in making something as a community effort e.g. a joint painting
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To see God as You are. Revelation.
(Christ Sight drawing)
To see the world, our time, lives, purpose, place as You see them.
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Encounters without resistance (drawing)
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A theme: LIGHT
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A place to respect the past but look to the modern - EXIST IN THE NOW (the only place we can ever be)
Meet, recognise and be moved by Jesus in our time, our place, our culture.
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So I wonder if we could continue to pray and continue the conversation? How about it?
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