LCMS- After Convention- Part Three - a Prayer

Well, my view of the convention upon return home 

may not have been what most people were doing---

 I was taking it all in....

 Listening and Watching People. 

 Meeting New People...

 my First Convention..

 So I just prayed and prayed and prayed...

and here at home again- 

I took some time to think about things...

in the Garden.

Butterflies in the JOE PYE WEED

 behind our fence in the neighbor's yard.

And listen to this song-
here on this video-Build Your Kingdom Here-- by Rend Collective Experiment.

And here are the words to this song as my prayer for the LCMS.

Come set Your rule and reign
In our hearts again
Increase in us we pray
Unveil why we're made
Come set our hearts ablaze with hope
Like wildfire in our very souls
Holy Spirit come invade us now
We are Your Church
We need Your power
In us

We seek Your kingdom first
We hunger and we thirst
Refuse to waste our lives
For You're our joy and prize
To see the captive hearts released
The hurt; the sick; the poor at peace
We lay down our lives for Heaven's cause
We are Your church
We pray revive
This Earth

Build Your kingdom here
Let the darkness fear
Show Your mighty hand
Heal our streets and land
Set Your church on fire
Win this nation back
Change the atmosphere
Build Your kingdom here
We pray

Unleash Your kingdom's power
Reaching the near and far
No force of hell can stop
Your beauty changing hearts
You made us for much more than this
Awake the kingdom seed in us
Fill us with the strength and love of Christ
We are Your church
We are the hope 
On Earth

AMEN.