In this episode Christine interviews Lilly Lewin about creativity and worship. Lilly is worship curator of ThinplaceNASHVILLE and freerangeworship.com. She takes worship outside the box, beyond singing, through multi-sensory prayer, experiential worship, and art. Lilly leads workshops, & creates Sacred Space experiences in the US and abroad. Author of Sacred Space with Dan Kimball, and articles in Youthworker Journal, & Curating Worship by Jonny Baker. Lilly Lewin shares her journey into art and worship curation including the importance of incorporating art and participatory elements ..read more

by Christine Sine Yesterday was Earth Day, celebrating a wonderful movement that began back in 1970 when protest brought together 20 million Americans—10% of the U.S. population at the time—into the streets. In response the Environmental Protection Agency was created and a wave of laws, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act were were enacted. This movement is now a world wide movement and there is a growing cry to make every day Earth day, to recognize that care for our planet is part of God’s mandate to all of us to be responsible stewards of all cre ..read more

by Christine Sine Creation sings, giving glory to God. It’s easy to imagine this while out hiking in majestic mountains or watching the explosion of color as the sun sets over the ocean. But it happens all around us, every day, every moment, if only we’re alert enough to notice. One way to hone our sense of wonder as we join with creation in praising our Creator is to discover this symphony of worship in our own backyards or neighborhoods. or local parks and green spaces.  Even a concrete jungle has greenery popping up between the cracks. It’s Earth Day, and many of us are wondering how ..read more

by Jeannie Kendall George of Lydda was a 3rd century martyr, a Roman soldier killed for his refusal to renounce his faith and better known as St George. He is the patron saint of England, but also of Georgia and Ethiopia. Despite little being known about his life, he is of course the subject of the legend of St George and the dragon, which is variously expressed, but centred around a dragon which is terrorising a city, and is appeased only by sacrifice. Having run out of possibilities, the king’s daughter is to be sacrificed. Enter St George, who saves the girl by killing the dragon with a la ..read more

by Lilly Lewin It’s the middle of April and I’m sitting at the Abbey of Gethsemani with a fan blowing on me. This week the temperature has gotten up to the low 80’s and 70’s at night! Much too hot for this cool weather girl and very different from my usually abbey visits that take place in January or February each year. It’s a bit later than I normally get here because I missed getting my reservation in and I had a couple of other trips that came up in the first part of this year. So here I am in the middle of Spring with the dogwoods in full bloom and on a week that happens to be very warm ..read more

compiled by Margery Tate, a friend of godspacelight writer, Carol Dixon Call to Worship (inspired by Luke 24:13-35) O God, you come to us in unexpected places, in a crowded room, behind closed doors. You come to us on dusty roads, as we go from place to place and in conversations with loved ones. You come bringing us peace, where there is no peace. You come bringing us hope when everything seems hopeless You come bringing us courage when we are afraid. Come and be among us now, and in every place where we are, open our eyes to see you, and open our hearts and to know you. In the name of the R ..read more

My dad made us this grapevine wreath and brought it to us for Thanksgiving last year. Little did we know that a bird would find it to be the perfect place to build a nest this spring. See below for the mama bird perched on the side of the wreath,  the lovely little blue eggs she laid, and the baby birds that just hatched! one egg on March 29th four eggs on April 4th three baby birds on April 14th  (see video below) https://youtube.com/shorts/5bJ5AnvYLVY?si=P3ZdDHJnaTHyix0p This made this prayer have more meaning when I read it this morning:  A Remembering Prayer  God of ..read more

It’s been a wonder filled few days. A season for hope and dreaming to come together in the experience of new life. On Saturday morning Tom and I headed up to Camano Island to meeting with friends and go out to visit the property we used to own that now belongs to Circlewood. We were rejoicing in the good news we heard on Friday that permits have come together to complete the first building on the land. This building was vandalized several years ago, dashing our hopes for the development of a retreat centre and ministry site. It made us realize we would probably not be the ones to bring t ..read more

by Christine Sine Have you had your awe and wonder sighting for today? If not it’s time to go out and take notice. Our daily experience of life, God and God’s world are meant to inspire us with awe and wonder. Our failure to notice the miracles around us is a failure of the spirit as well as the senses. This week we are getting ready for Earth Day on April 22nd, so it is a good time to re-attune our senses and a fitting way to begin our awe and wonder challenge.  We are still in Eastertide, a great season for noticing and responding in awe to the presence of Jesus in us, and around ..read more

Dear Community,   We are experiencing quite a new level of broken links here at Godspacelight! Thanks to memory limitations and plug-in shenanigans we are having to go back and relink almost all of our resource page links one at a time.  Never fear, it will get done, but, it’s going to take a while… As we forge on with updating pages we think are critical and needed imminently, we welcome your inquiries about links you need. So if you come across a broken link that you would like fixed, please let godspacelight know by email – our address is godspacelight at gmail. I’m spelling it ..read more