The Hand That Spins the Galaxies Wants You Here. Introducing The Creed
One autumn morning not long ago, I walked to an Oxford cafe, took a window table on the third floor, and pulled out my journal. I wanted to craft a statement – a creed of sorts – that would pull together what I’d learned while writing my new book The Making of Us. Something that captured what matters most in life. Something to read regularly to guide me forward. After many scribbled phrases and crossings out, I arrived at this: The Creed.
You’ll find the full text in the closing chapter of The Making of Us but here is an abridged version, crafted into video form by Tyler Jackson, and available below as a downloadable print for your wall or smartphone.
The hand that spins the galaxies wants you here.
The Creed
The hand that spins the galaxies brought me into being.
The One who holds the stars has made me his own.
I am God’s child. My life is rich, my days are sacred.
I am held by a love that’s wider and higher than the farthest
edges of this expanding universe.
I am a pilgrim in this world, in search of wisdom and wonder.
I will take new adventures.
And follow God into the unknown.
What I achieve is not as important as the person I become.
So I will seek to imitate the Nail-Pierced One.
I will step in the direction of my strengths and talents.
They are Spirit-given tools for my God-given tasks.
I will pay attention to my persistent aspirations.
They could be the whispers of God.
I will serve all I can and walk deeply with a few.
I will aim for great things but leave my legacy to God.
The path is long and the terrain at times hard.
Still:
I will not wish for another’s life.
I will take my place, play my part.
Something important will be missed if I don’t.
For the hand that spins the galaxies wants me here.
Adapted and abridged from The Making of Us: Who We Can Become When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned by Sheridan Voysey.
Thomas Nelson publishers. © 2019 Sheridan Voysey
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How to Use The Creed
Whether as a regular meditation or the basis for your own Rule of Life (see the personalisation guide), The Creed has been crafted to help you move forward. Here are some ideas on making the most of it.
fullyalive
Just started reading The Making of Us, and already it is a game-changer, a perspective- shifter. I am so looking forward to delving more into this book and all of your books. Thank you of sharing your gift of writing and your journey.
Sheridan Voysey
That makes me very pleased to hear indeed. Thank you.
Simon Lawton
Inspirational and so good in the in between season that I’ve found myself in. Thank you so much Sheridan. I have the book now and look forward to soaking in it and as a pastor I’m already recommending it to others. Bless you!
Sheridan Voysey
I am so glad! Thanks so much, Simon. Journey forward well.
Donna
I just completed your Devotional in the YouVersion Bible App. I loved it and am lookingforwardtoreadingyour book!! God blessyou andyours!!
Sheridan Voysey
I do hope you enjoy it! The Making of Us feels like my ‘life message’ book. I can’t think of another I spent so much time on.
Deborah
Just completed the devotional, The Making of Us, through the YouVersion Bible app. I am so glad I found it, and want to thank you for sharing your God-given gifts with us all. I love The Creed and found it to be so incredibly thought provoking…just what I needed to rouse me from a place I had settled for, a place without hope! Thank you so much for sharing this with us!
Sheridan Voysey
I’m so glad, Deborah. I hope you like the whole book too – it was an absolute labour of love to write and came from a similarly unsettled place. God bless!