 it just doesn't matter this is not a caravan of despair come even if you've broken your vow a thousand times come yet again come let us pray holy spirit create a god and beloved son our bodies and thoughts enthrone you as the wonder of heaven keeper of the covenant of love our beloved mediating peace between us and among us we pray in the strong name of Jesus Christ that every word spoken in this place may diligently accomplish that for which you have sent it make us one as you unfold us you alone were God on creation's first light you alone have been God even on that dark first Easter night you alone are God in the last things and at the end of each good fight here we are some of us masked some behind closed doors both afraid and careful as our environment rages in your sight we celebrate your calming presence in our tightness with thanksgiving we acknowledge your presence yielding the dazed and dizzy we sit in you and in your presence yearning for deliverance some are still trembling we teach and will be taught in your presence this day some exhausted and some uneasy you are welcome oh God to rescript us behind electronic walls and breakout rooms you are welcome oh God to reconfigure this world of sin masks sanitizers and zooms you are welcome oh God to redeclare Shalom over all creation and across customs you are welcome oh God to rekindle the spirit's fire in all our bosoms allow us once again oh God to experience you behind our humanly fears and limitations allow us once again to experience your broken blessed side in rebuke of all obsessions allow us once again to experience your blood's witness in your once impaled hands and godly feet that we may reach out for others to believe your gospel's confessions allow us once again to experience your brow dethorned healing all mental afflictions we raise our hands in faith as those who have believed without seeing and by the Holy Spirit now seeing because we have believed let every one of our knees bow as every tongue in this place declares my lord and my God as you do a new thing in our midst oh Holy Spirit created God and beloved son in the strong name of Jesus we have prayed amen