You’ve maybe already seen this (it’s been doing the ‘viral email’ and Facebook rounds over the last few days) but it’s well worth a watch; a great example of hope and beauty suddenly springing up in the midst of everyday life:

I’ve just arrived home from a bitingly-cold-but-fabulous Dock Walk, and it strikes me that (without bursting into an acapella Hallelujah chorus) what we’re doing on Sunday afternoons has a similar agenda.  We’re refusing to hide in the safe confines of a church building, but bringing worship onto the streets and public spaces of the Titanic Quarter.  We’re looking for glimpses of God in a world of coffee cups, shops and busy people.

Today we were taking some time to re-commit to really getting to grips with the Bible, using as our jumping-off point the rather strange passage in Ezekiel where the prophet is commanded to “eat the scroll” containing God’s revelation.  An unusual but powerful image of letting God’s word go deep, affecting stomach and bloodstream and circulating around the whole body.

We were chatting as we walked about how some of us find the Wordlive material incredibly helpful in engaging with the Bible.  For me, listening to the podcast – and therefore hearing the Bible passage read aloud, slowly and carefully, rather than being tempted to skim-read it – is a really good discipline.  Wordlive also really helps in the discipline of reading the whole Bible, ‘forcing’ me to look at the obscure parts of the Bible which usually go unread and ignored – it doesn’t just cherry-pick the well-known passages.  (Very true of this coming week, where the readings continue through the book of Ezekiel.)  If you haven’t tried Wordlive yet, or have let it slip, why not give it another go? – the link is here (or can always be found under the ‘Connect’ tab on the Dock website)

For now, why not use today’s Dock Walk postcard as a prayer – ask God to help you to “eat” – to digest, chew, absorb – his wonderful, life-changing Word: