PEACE IN YOUR HEART by BLUE ROSE CODE - As Prayers At Fitzroy Communion

I see you on the road

Trying to find your way home

And I wish you peace in your heart

Bring your boat to the shore

Don't be alone anymore

And I wish you peace in your heart

With a love you will always know

 

From the moment I heard Blue Rose Code’s (I Wish You) Peace In Your Heart I wanted to use it in Fitzroy. 

As a pastor I am aware of anxieties, pain and grief that a congregation carries. I look back on last year and know that many have not had it easy.

Blue Rose Code’s main man Ross Wilson has written this near benediction. It isn’t about everything being fixed. It is about a deeper peace within as we “find our way home”. 

There is the added “a love that you always know.” I am ever praying and preaching that Fitzroy know the truth of Emmanuel - God with Us. That they are always loved.

When I considered how to share this song I knew that Caroline Orr with Peter Greer on piano could do it absolute justice. I was not wrong. It was a beautiful performance.

I set it in our monthly communion service. I used it as the prayers before the communion, followed by the prayer below that I riffed off Ross’s lyric. Then during the actual sharing of the bread and wine Caroline and Peter reprised the song.

It worked beautifully. We will do its again.

 

My prayer (flowing on from the song)

 

As we gather around this table I pray for peace in our hearts

I pray for a year that is easier on our souls

Easier on us all

 

When the broken world takes a piece of us

When it snaps our hearts into pieces

May a piece of this bread

Symbol of a piece of Jesus, given for us

Jesus among us

God with us

The Spirit our companion, counsellor and comfort

May we know peace on ours hearts.

 

When our souls and flesh and blood

Get poured out by this world’s anxieties, grief and trauma

Leaving your energy and faith and hope wizened and dry

May this cup of wine

Symbol of Jesus lifeblood poured out for us

Forgiveness of sins

Covenant of love

Fortitude of resilience 

Be a life transfusion

God with us

Making himself perfect in our weakness

May we know piece in your heart

 

We are another year old

Watch the darkness burst into gold

When we find that peace in our hearts

With a love we will always know

There is a love we will always know

 

As we gather around this table I pray for peace in our hearts

I pray for a year that is easier on your soul

Easier on us all

 

In Jesus name

Amen

 

watch the service (Song and prayers at 1.20.25) - HERE