Reflections on the readings (17th Sunday in ordinary time Year B)

2 Kgs 4:42-44; Ps 145:10-11, 15-16, 17-18; Eph 4:1-6; Jn 6:1-15

Sometimes Lord it feels like who I am and what I have to offer are too small for your work.
I wonder how the little I have to give can serve your people.
And I'm almost tempted not to give at all because it feels too small.
But your word reminds me that you take the little I offer and make it enough.
Whether it's to feed a hundred or 5000+
And it's not even just enough, there's a surplus after it all.
So here I am, reaffirming my faith in you and offering all I have and am.
Take me and use me as you will...just as you did with Paul and the other apostles.

Angela Azumah Alu (29/07/18)

PENTECOST

Come down consuming fire

Come fill our hears

Inflame us anew with love

That the Father and Son we may

proclaim: drunk on you

 come down sweet Spirit

transform our lives

transform our hearts

that never more shall we be the same

come down roaring wind

chip away at the rough ends of our lives

that we may be for the Father only

come down consuming fire

burn away at the chaff in our lives

 that we may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness

come down giver of life and gifts

 with all of your gifts

that we may transform the world around us

but transform us, mould us, do all

you have to that our lives

bear fruit for the glory of the Father

(Acts 1:8, Song of Solomon 4:16, Gal 5:22-23, Mal 3:3-4)

Angela Azumah Alu

HE BROKE ME

(Job 23:10, Mal 3:3-4, Jer 18:6, 1 Pet 1:7, James 1:2, Ps 30:5)

He broke me; He broke me

Like the potter, He moulded me and moulded me again

He broke me; He broke me

Like dough, He kneaded me and kneaded me again

He broke me; He broke me

Like grapes for wine, He crushed me and crushed me again

He broke me; He broke me

Like wood in a carpenter’s shop, He shaped me and shaped me again

He broke me; He broke me

Like gold, in a goldsmith’s shop, He refined me and refined me again

He broke me; He broke me

Like He shows in nature, transformation only comes by death

Jesus died so He could live forever and I with Him

He broke me; He broke me

To make me more like Him

To conform me to His image

To prune me that I may bear fruit

He broke me; He broke me

Through the pain and the tears;

There was joy and fulfillment because He broke me and broke me again to make me whole

Angela Azumah Alu

To God! 25th May 2012

Made in his image

Endowed with gifts,

Uniquely

Made like none other

Full of love and grace

Called by His name,

His own,

With all the weaknesses and strengths

So awesomely that even

The weaknesses are instruments

For His glory

Endued with power to

Live a Christian life

As prophet, evangelist, teacher, pastor or apostle (Eph 4:11)

Manifesting his gifts(1 Cor  12:1-11)

Sharing His graces with others (Rom 12:6-8 )

Doing all you can do for

His glory

Rooted in Him

Pruned and shaped by Him

To bear much fruit

Fruit that will last(John 15:16)

Led by His Spirit

Daily

To live for Him

Angela Azumah Alu