We hang our lives upon Your mercymeasured out in miles

Your boundaries and pathways,co-ordinates and charts

that guide our stepsalong roads You travelled before us

God, have mercy on me, a sinner

The Tax Collector’s Prayer

We will make time for You and Your Wordwe will practice Your ways until they are a part of

uswe will rest and play in You

we will be Your people

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

Matthew 5:9

On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” After

he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.

Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” And with that he breathed on them and said,

“Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of anyone, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”

John 20:19-23

Take some time to reflect on the passage, and in particular being a peacemaker.

Pray that you may be an agent of God’s peace.

Ask God to show you the places he is calling you to bring his peace.

Ask God to show you how you may bring his peace to your fieldwork and your community.

Lord, make us instruments of your peace,Where there is hatred, let us sow love;

where there is injury, pardon;where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;where there is darkness, light;

where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master, grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;

to be understood as to understand;to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

We are not complete without one anotherwe cannot run the race alone

We will support one anotherencourage one another

wait for the weakpick up the fallen

through Your strength and love

When we are together we will remember what it is like to travel alone

when we are alone we will remember what it is like to travel together

wherever we are we will remember God who always goes with us

Go with us now, Lord, today and always

A final comfort.Great movements are born from

one solitary beat.

Peace.

End.

Stuff from:

Ikon “we hang our lives upon your mercy” liturgy.

www.ikon.org.uk

Missio Dei Breviaryreflection from week 1 wednesday morning + tax collector’s / jesus prayer

thebreviary.com

Sigur Ros glosoli music video.

sigurros.com

Slides at: jameshenley.typepad.co.uk (!)Music from The Album Leaf, Harronell and Hillsong.