Women at Prayer
”’All desires know’: this phrase has always evoked in me
that distinctive stance which I associate with authentic worship:
namely, an appalled sense of self-exposure combined with a curious but profound relief,
and so to write under this title has been both a discipline and a comfort.
I have chosen it because I understand the Christian life to be about the integration of desire:
our personal desires, our political vision, and our longing for God.
So far from being in competition with one another,
I believe that our deepest desires ultimately spring from the same source:
and worship is the place where this can be acknowledged.”
Janet Morley Preface to All Desire Known SPCK 1988, Expanded Edition 1992.
For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord,
plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.
Jeremiah 29:11
‘O God our dance, in whom we live and move and have our being:
so direct our strength and inspire our weakness that we may enter
with power into the movement of your whole creation, through our partner, Jesus Christ, Amen.’
Morley, All Desires Known. 1992, blessing, p. 87.