If
you’re working with Jeremiah 18:1-11 this week, here’s a possible opening for
worship. It comes from the Liturgy Planning website.
Opening Comments
(The Presider moves
towards the sacred space (or potter’s wheel if available), which is draped in
strips of brown and purple hessian, or some other suitable fabric, and has a
large lump of clay sitting beside the Word of God.)
In
our liturgy this evening we will reflect upon the intimacy of our relationship
with God, a God who urges us, through the Prophet Jeremiah, to sit before a
Potter and note what the Potter does to clay, in the hope that we may know
something of the mystery of being in relationship with God. (The Presider picks up
the clay and holds it
out to the community). This clay will remind us of our fragility, vulnerability
and brokenness, while at the same time exposing our true beauty and rich
potential, if we but surrender to the hands of the Potter. And so we pray.
Opening Prayer
Creator
God, all creation is your handiwork;
your
touch gives life to all that is.
You
who shape and form us by the breathe of your Spirit
and
the touch of your grace,
you
alone are able to call forth from the depths of our being
the
beauty of your Spirit in us.
May
we in this celebration,
surrender
more deeply to your loving touch,
as
you fashion and form you heart’s desire in us.
This
we pray in your Spirit. Amen
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