Sometimes, you are just too big for us God.
We study in hopes of understanding you,
Discuss in hopes of explaining you,
Pray in hopes of discerning you
Seek in hopes of finding you,
And just as we begin to feel we have our minds wrapped around
the complexities of you,
We find ourselves once again lost in the mystery.

Sometimes, you are just too big for us God.
We long for a sense of belonging.
And so we seek out people with whom we can agree.
We hunger for being right,
And so we dig deeper, the chasm that separates us
from those who are wrong.
We yearn for security in a world torn to shreds in disagreement
And so we build stone walls and picketed fences
on our lands and in our hearts.
and so we confess that sometimes reconciliation looks better
on a bulletin insert than it does
in the living out of its reality.

Sometimes, you are just too big for us God.
And the reality is, we need you to be just that.

What we desire most, Oh God, is to be who it is you call us to be –
A movement for wholeness in a fragmented world.
And we need a God big enough to keep luring us into that reality.

Weave us together, oh God.
Stir our spirits to reach out across the chasms of disagreement
that divides our world

Inspire our hearts to see every human as your beloved child

And renew our minds with the mysterious wonderment of who you are…

Sometimes you are just too big for us God, and for that we give thanks!