Access to the Throne of God

Lectionary Readings

Revelation 4:1–11
Psalm 29
John 16:12–15

Tithe Poem

Heaven is Now | Revelation 4

If Earth is Heaven upside down,
Heaven is Earth downside up;
Relentlessly the division grown
Is being undone. Each shall erupt

Into each. The breach is happening now.
Between Heaven and Earth there is a door
Meant to be open. The Spirit shows how;
The Son knocks now; The Father longs to pour

His mercy through, and His power—if only,
If only we’d open the door and see
The heavenly creatures full of eyes
To better see the Throne of He who lives
and died for all that He has made.
Open, Door of Heaven, that all might be remade.

You Belong to God

Veni sancte Spiritus—
come that we, come that I
may be made whole,
may be restored.
may be made something
deeper, something thicker,
something earthly
and divine,
made more like thee, Lord,
more like thee.