More good stuff from the Northern Mission Centre…
As part of a recent Fresh Expressions day Lori Passmore wrote the beginning of a liturgy using the analogy of a kite being both tethered and free, something which resonates with pioneering, both tethered to the traditions of the past but also free to play on the edges.
Participants were invited to write their own lines and some of these were used to create the liturgy shared at the end of the day and reproduced below.
Kite Liturgy
Written in collaboration with participants at the Fresh Expressions Day in Penrith Cumbria in November 2022.
Love is more important than anything else. It is what ties everything completely together (Colossians 3:14)
Let us be tethered
You will know the truth and the truth will set you free (John 8:32)
Let us be free
With all that we are
Let us be tethered yet free
With what’s gone before
Let us be tethered yet free
As we journey together
Let us be tethered yet free
As we find the flow
Let us be tethered yet free
Grounded in faith, lifted in spirit
Let us be tethered yet free
Instil in us a prophetic language
Let us be tethered yet free
Connected to Jesus, but free to be who he has made me to be
Let us be tethered yet free
As we sweep low and twist in loops
Let us be tethered yet free
Moving with the grace of the winds, following the missionary spirit of God
Let us be tethered yet free
As we live in community
Let us be tethered yet free
The mountains and hills will burst into song
Let us be tethered yet free
As we celebrate difference, as we find our new shape
Let us be tethered yet free
Amen