I wrote this benediction as the ending to my sermon entitled "Breaking Open." I had used Mary Oliver's poem "Lead" as a call throughout the sermon. The majority is from Ephesians 3:17-21.
BENEDICTION
There are many stories to break your heart
May it break open and never close again to the rest of the world
For Jesus has come to be transfigured in us
That being rooted and established in love, we may have power
together with all God’s people
To grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ
And to experience this love that surpasses mere knowledge in the
fleshiness of our bodies
So we may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God
Now to God who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or
imagine, according to God’s power at work within us, to God be glory
in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations for ever
and ever, Amen.
March 2025
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