Every Sunday Morning before beginning worship at Dunham Road I like to
look up at the ceiling above me. Have any of you been to Dunham Road Chapel? It
is so beautiful. There is so much that you can feast your eyes on, without
anything being in your face. Before I begin leading worship I like to look up
and offer a prayer; a prayer to remind me of why I am there; a prayer to remind
me of what I believe the purpose of worship is; a prayer to remind me of what
spiritual community is about; a prayer to remind me of what the purpose of
religion truly is. As I look up I feel like I am standing beneath the hull of a
great ship. Yes ok it’s one turned upside down. I’m cool with that as I’m
someone who is always searching for the un-commonsense as opposed to the
commonsense that I am told I should be seeking. Commonsense is so overrated,
where as un-commonsense is so rarely absorbed.
As I look up at the ceiling I feel Like I’m dangling down towards the
bottom of a great ship and when I then look up at the congregation I feel like
we are all in this ship together. We are sailing in this ship together. We do
not sail the ship alone. We are fellows in the same ship; we are journeying in
a fellowship. I do not see it as an Ark though, more a cruise ship really,
maybe it could be called a love boat. It is a fellowship of love, a fellowship
of the spirit even. Each week we journey together. Ok I may well steer the ship,
but I am not the navigator. After our weekly adventure, on our love boat, we go
back out into the world, we go our separate ways and hopefully carry that
spirit into our daily lives and into our world; to attempt to share some of
this uncommon sense in our own little worlds. We go our separate ways, but are united
in that spirit of love we have shared in our time together.
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