It’s going to be quiet on this blog for a few days, as Susan and I catch a wee break together (and leave the phone and laptop switched off – the only way to have a proper holiday in the new media age!)

So I thought I’d leave this video up on the website, and hopefully you’ll get a chance to look at it – and pray the prayer – over the course of the week.  Initially filmed for The Dock’s first birthday party last November, it feels even more relevant now.

When we get back from holiday, The Dock will be entering another new era.  The next few months will see us constituted as a Limited Company, seeking support from a wide range of politicians, trusts,and other bodies with lots of initials in their names, fundraising our little hearts out for the boat, and continuing to call and hope and pray for a true Shared Medley of involvement from people of all sorts of backgrounds.

Big, scary days – but not faced alone.  We aren’t a bunch of businesspeople embarking on a new profit-making venture – we’re a group of people with faith, seeking to walk our talk, convinced that God matters in the Titanic Quarter and that a group of people living his way can bless and strengthen and add value to the emerging community.  Some days, the process of living that out looks a little businesslike.  Other days, it looks breathtakingly exciting.  Other days, it just looks terrifying.

But as Drake’s prayer reminds us (watch it now!), we believe in a God who “pushes back the horizons of our hopes”.  In these unprecedented days, we want to keep dreaming bigger.