My Creed

Long ago I took a four year course of study called Education for Ministry.

One of the assignments was for each student to write a personal creed. Here is mine, which has continued to be updated over the years.

Creed

(by way of the Holy Island Lindisfarne)

I am trusting three times in One God:

My first trusting is in the One

            Who is the Breath still singing time into being;

            Who is the Hands still making the world;

            Who is the Seed still begetting love.

My second trusting is in the One

            Who is the Way still going beyond;

            Who is the Truth still baffling death;

            Who is the Life still opening in the wastelands.

My third trusting is in the One

            Who is the Heart still lifting up the sky;

            Who is the Wings still wheeling over the darkness.

            Who is the Wind still blowing from nowhere.

I am also trusting in a Holy House that was and is and will be—

           

Here is dancing, and here is mourning;

            Here is shouting, and here is stilling;

            Here is keeping, and here is wasting;

            Here is giving, and here is getting;

            Here is pleading, and here is settling;

            Here is reminding, and here is forgetting;

            Here is bearing, and here is easing—

  Here is hallowed ground for bearing us up under the weight of Grace.

A Hearth I am coming home to always.