Closing Thoughts
Holly MillerShank
Original Post Date: May 21, 2014
By Rev. Holly MillerShank
The final breaths of every worship service in my childhood were the congregation's singing of Bless Be the Tie That Binds. The words of that hymn always lifted and wrapped up all of the elements of the morning's worship, like a table cloth being lifted by its four corners, plates and all, to be carried to a new place.
That table was reset again each week with the acolytes lighting the candles and prayer of invocation. But the closing thoughts, that last refrain, would again wrap it all up to send us out into the world, bound to one another, and then draw us back in to be fed once again...
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