So I'm walking this prison camp world
I long for a glimpse of the new world unfurled
The chrysalis cracking and moisten winds uncurl
Like in the vision John saw
The vision John saw
- from Dweller By a Dark Stream by Bruce Cockburn
Tonight in a quiet reflective service at Fitzroy I was using the songs of Bruce Cockburn and Eric Angus Whyte. This Cockburn song ended the reflection and I wrote this prayer to finish. It is a Sunday night into Monday morning thought. It is an imagination firing song, desperately needed to bring the Kingdom order to this prison camp world.
PRAYER: Lord as we leave here to return to a prison camp world
Give us glimpses of how it can and is going to be
Give us rumours of the glory of Jesus again Lord over the world
Give us inklings of a new heaven and a new earth
Give us a glimpse of the vision John saw
And may that vision give us the engine of imagination
To help us rethink the nature of the world
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