Brighter Than Ten Thousand Stars

Throughout the Spiritual Formation Course I was struck by two themes: community and Spirit-empowered life. Each of the modules in the course had these themes running through them. Earth: the grounded life - relationships/community/family are vital. Wind: the inspired life - the wind of the Holy Spirit (breath) inspires through beauty all around us in creation, through art, through dreams, through heroes (people living out great stories). Fire: the empowered life - the Holy Spirit empowers us to live missionally bringing His Kingdom; "the now and the not-yet." Water: the communal life - again the theme of relationships and community here.

I was very intentional in using communal language in this song - we, us, our, not I, me, mine. I've also been influenced a great deal by the writings of N.T. Wright, both in the Essentials Blue course, and in reading his book Surprised By Hope. So I've had these themes of resurrection, hope, new life, and mission rolling around inside me and they seemed to have worked their way into this song as well.

The song is both a prayer and a response for a community of people to sing together. Our Prayer: "Come, thou light (give us greater vision)... Come, thou breath (Spirit-empowering life)... Bring Your Kingdom ('Your Kingdom come, Your will be done' the now and the not-yet)... Write Your story on our days (empower us to live stories that speak of Your greatness)..." Our Response: "We, Your children sing, lost in wonder... Your glory is waking our hearts (to go and be/do the things we're asking for in the verses of the song)..."[gallery]