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For LENT 2026, we are adopting and adapting a worship resource from Sanctified Art. We hope you find our Easter journey meaningful.
Each week in Rock the Week, we will share a devotion such as the one below. This is the weekly devotional will align with the Sunday theme and message.
Holy Week in Lent Devotion/EASTER SUNDAY
Death cannot stop the good news. It is alive, unbound, and wild in the world. Like the mustard seed, it grows without limit. As water turned into wine, it surprises us with joy. Like loaves of bread, it multiplies to feed each hungry soul. And now, even in the face of death, it will not be buried or silenced. Just as the angels in Advent, the angel at the empty tomb delivers good news: “Do not be afraid.” On the way to Galilee, Jesus greets the women with this same message, but adds: “Go and tell my brothers and sisters to go to Galilee; there they will see me.” As we celebrate the good news of Easter, let us also go out seeking Christ in the faces of neighbors and strangers, and in the good works that are alive in this world.
- April 5, Easter and Creating New Prayer Flags (Write on your flag what you want to see or experience resurrected.)
The idea of sending messages through the air via writings on cloth can be traced back over 2000 years to a shamanistic tradition in what is now called Tibet. This activity was originally thought to appease the gods. Later, flags were integrated into Buddhism with writings of prayers and mantras on them. Today, they are hung with the belief that these good wishes will be carried by the wind, spreading goodwill and kindness to all.
Over time, the tradition has been respectfully adopted, and today, prayer flags are hung by numerous cultures and communities across the world. Some Native American tribes hang flags with tobacco tied to them.
Why are we using prayer flags at SR? Several years ago, they were introduced to our church by a couple who were taken with the practice and shared the idea with our congregation. We are grateful they did, and we continue to enrich our experience with ritual.
The SR way incorporates the original intentions of sending voice and spirit through the wind. However, our flags are scraps of cloth and are not hung in any particular order, nor are they of any specific color.
On Easter Sunday, at both services, we will write our individual good wishes and hopes for ourselves and the world and hang them on our dar-ding structure. Think about the power of this group prayer and what you would like to send into the wind, hoping to resurrect a world of peace and calm.
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