Keffer Chapel Prayer service, November 9, 2012
Designed by Matthew Anderson
With thanks to Kris Lund (violin), Rick Pryce (guitar), Allen Jorgenson & Matthew Anderson(poetry)
1/Invocation and Greeting:
May the Light that shone in darkness, which gently traces the earth with frost and calls the animals to their winter nests, call you now into the warmth of this circle, in the name of Creator, of Redeemer, and of the Wind of the Spirit. AMEN
2/Reading the text (2 Cor 4:7-12) to improvised music on the violin (a November kind of sound)
3/Reading of short poems on November and 2 Cor 4:7-12 - alternating, with violin improvisation)
4/ Pieces of paper with words printed on them (next sheet), together with invitation to write a "sense" poem. Guitar improvisation for five minutes while poems are written
5/Reading of poems by those who wish (violin/guitar improv)
6/Closing blessing
Waterloo Lutheran Seminary Chapel Fri Nov 9, 2012 Dr. M Anderson
2 Cor 4:7-12 But we have this treasure in clay pots so that the awesome power belongs to God and doesn’t come from us. We are experiencing all kinds of trouble, but we aren’t crushed. We are confused, but we aren’t depressed.
We are harassed, but we aren’t abandoned. We are knocked down, but we aren’t knocked out.
We always carry Jesus’ death around in our bodies so that Jesus’ life can also be seen in our bodies. We who are alive are always being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake so that Jesus’ life can also be seen in our bodies that are dying.
So death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
Please write a "tweet"-length poem (140 characters or less; about 15 words max) combining ONLY words from the following two lists. You are allowed to include linking words that are not on this list, or to change the tense of verbs (ie walk to "walked") or the number of nouns (ie sing to plural or vice-versa)
November:St Paul: 2 Cor 4:7-12
frostwe/ I / you
dead Jesus / God
leavesdeath
waterlife
bareseen
branchescarry
coldwithin
seasoncup/ bread
greyraised
firebody
darkresurrection
burrowglory
sidewalkcross
windgrave
icetreasure
emptinesspower
earthbodies
touchcrushed
walkconfused
standdepressed
sitharassed
lookabandoned
seelife
An example:
Look! abandoned earth touches me. Grey glory, life carried within.