Benediction: May you encounter the grace of the gardener who grants you time and space to grow, who stirs up the soil of change in your life, and who pleads for you to begin to live into your intention; to produce good fruit and to bless the world.

Benediction: May we be the people who find ourselves returning again and again to gather under the wings of God, that we might be surrounded and nurtured by the Love that asks us to face into death.

Benediction: May you awake from the slumber that has robbed you of God's radiance found in Jesus! May you become increasingly aware of your invitation to leave the mountaintop to help light up all of the shadowy places desperate for the brightness of God.

Benediction: May the Spirit of God go before you this week; surprising you with opportunities to display radical love to those who cannot love you in return. May your experience learning to love as God loves help uncover the new life that has been prepared for you. A life saturated in enduring peace and bursting with radical joy. Amen.

Benediction: When you find yourself under the weight of great suffering may your soul cling to the anchor of hope that's been promised; rest, provision, wholeness. And when life pours forth blessing after blessing; look up, look around, be shaken from your complacency, add some seats at your table.

Benediction: May you listen for the still small voice that whispers "try again" and fills your heart with the hope of possibility. May you find yourself lingering on the shoreline long after all the others have gone home so that you can bear witness to the miracles of God.

Benediction: May the very substance deep inside your bones be made new so that wherever you step you can be confident that love is leading and guiding you.

Benediction: You are the body of Christ; united and bound together by the unsettling grace of God. So go; live, move and breathe as that unified body; where grace holds us together and love is the oxygen that keeps us alive.

Benediction: May the first miracle of Jesus be your reminder that God delights in keeping the party going. May the sweet taste of the best wine be your reminder that with God the best is yet to come; for there is always hope.

Benediction: May you learn to trust the voice of God as it speaks over you and to you. May God's voice remind you that you have been formed, and therefore belong to the gentle hands of Love. May God's voice prove louder than all your striving as it declares that your belovedness is who you are.