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World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, August 6, 2015

Today is the 70th anniversary of the atomic bomb dropping on Hiroshima, and three days later over Nagasaki. At a ceremony to mark the anniversary, which included Caroline Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador, Mr. Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, said “Seventy years on I want to re-emphasize the necessity of world peace.”  The Church of England published this prayer.

Today, as the United States congress debates a nuclear deal with Iran we remember how many times the world has been embroiled in a “war to end all wars” and we recognize that negotiation and diplomacy might end war in our time but undoubtedly not forever.

Today we hear that up to 200 migrants, crossing the Mediterranean Sea in an overloaded fishing boat, drowned when it overturned. Fleeing murder, violence, war, and trying to find a better life, this sea is rapidly becoming a mass graveyard not a route to mass peace and contentment.

Today, it is highly likely that wreckage now washing up on Reunion Island is from missing Flight MH370. What must be in the minds of the grieving relatives, especially those who think they are, once again, being misled? Are they expecting only news of violence, terror, and the backlash of war.

Today we hear a fence is being erected around Hungary. As if the Berlin Wall had not fallen; as if the Israeli wall of separation hasn’t taught us enough.

Today there are terror attacks in Gaza, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia; the world is obsessed with violence. Today, whatever the day, the good news never makes the headlines, only the evil that is done.

Today we hear that a deep el nino event might be building – but does this make headlines? Something of the glory and might of a powerful earth event returning to the Pacific.

Today we hear that, possibly, the “world’s biggest coal mine” in Queensland is put on hold following a court case. So that of the glory of the Australian barrier reef is retained.

Today and in the week ahead the Perseid meteor shower displays something of the glory of the heavens.

Today a little more of the interaction between the San Andreas and San Jacinto earthquake causing faults have been understood, displaying a little more of the glory of the interconnectedness of our world.

Today – the world is full of glory; full of violence; ever-changing and forever our world.

Ever-changing God, you have seen our constant obsessions – the reveling in violence and the demand for a war to end all wars – bringing peace in our time. You have seen how we yet seek to understand more of the environment of our planet beneath our feet and above our heads. All the wonder and the glory we see revealed are only reflections of your glory; all the violence we see is but a shadow of what your might would do if you unleashed it on earth. May we tremble at your glory and fall before your might so that our world and all that is in it will know peace in our time – even if just for today.

Amen.

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World News in Prayer, Thursday 12th March 2015

 World News in Prayer for March 12, 2015

 

For God so loved the world…

Gracious and holy one, God of all creation, God of all people everywhere,

it is so easy, as we journey through this season of Lent, to get lost in the wilderness of pain and sorrow we see in the world around us. Our sight scans across the globe and we readily fixate on the ugliness: the expressions of hatred and prejudice, the violence of wars, the brokenness of relationships at the personal and national and global levels. Our gaze locks on Hungary, Greece, India, Israel, Iraq, the United States, Syria, Somalia, Sierra Leone-– all places in which the darkness has taken hold, places in which the light of truth and justice seems but a flickering candle threatened by the winds of hopelessness.

 

And yet, the words of John’s Gospel remind us that you look at us and our world always with eyes of love.

 

For God so loved the world…

 

And so, God of love and justice and truth, God of hope and beauty and creativity, as

we lift our gaze to the reality of your love enacted on the cross of the Christ, we hear your call to look around us with the light of wonder in our eyes to behold the goodness which is abounding in our world, the goodness which your love will not let remain in darkness, but which you call into the light.

Looking with newly-opened eyes, we see and rejoice in:

 

  • The rescue of Baby Lilly in Utah in the United States, found after fourteen hours in a wrecked automobile in the river, alive in spite of the death of her mother.
  • The daring of Rima Karaki, a TV presenter in Lebanon, in ending an interview with Islamist Sheikh, Hani Sibai, after he spoke to her disrespectfully and demeaningly, even after she had donned a veil out of respect for him.
  • The condemnation by the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights of the murders of albino citizens in Malawi, Tanzania.
  • The green toilet being developed by Oxfam and the University of the West of England and being tested in Britain which uses urine to generate electricity, so it can be used in refugee camps to provide both sanitation and light.
  • The nation of Brazil opening their doors to nearly 2,000 refugees of the war in Syria.
  • The overwhelming response to the documentary, India’s Daughter, the story of the rape and murder of medical student, Jyoti Singh, by five young men, which is changing opinions about sexual violence against women in India and throughout the world.

 

And so, the words of John remind us that you look at us and our world always with eyes of love.

 

For God so loved the world…

 

Now, may the peace of the Lord Christ go with you; may God guide you through the wilderness and protect you through the storm; may God bring you home rejoicing at the wonders you have seen and experienced and known, today and every day as you stand in the light of God’s love.  Amen.

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World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, December 18, 2014

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. – John 13:34

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. – Matthew 11:29

I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness. – John 12:46

The news this week has left me crying with the bereaved relatives and friends of 137 school-children and 5 teachers in Pakistan, “ENOUGH!”

  • In Gumsuri village, northern Nigeria, 33 people were murdered by Boko Haram and another 200 taken captive.
  • 51 people are confirmed dead and more than 50 are still missing after a mud-slide in Java, Indonesia.
  • The worst drought in over 80 years is stalking huge areas around Sao Paulo, Brazil.  Heavy rainstorms have temporarily broken the drought in California, USA but have not refilled the vastly depleted water table.
  • Australia is recovering from the siege in a Sydney cafe which resulted in 2 deaths and others injured and is now looking to improve its gun-controls.
  • Tugs and ships are being used as floating arsenals for private security firms fighting pirates in several areas of the world.  The ships are often registered to countries which have no record of control or management of such items causing major concerns over security and accountability.
  • Greece is in turmoil, and is seemingly unable to appoint a new government leading to more chaos and insecurity.
  • The Russian ruble has gone into free-fall leaving ordinary Russians to pay the price.
  • Five people have died in Japan following heavy snowfall and vast tidal surges caused by unexpectedly low barometric pressure.
  • The fighting and political manipulation continues in Syria, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, the West Bank, Israel, Afghanistan, Somalia and so many other countries…
  • And we all live in the same small world, inter-connected, needing and being needed by each other. When will we stand together like the people of Pakistan and say, “Enough!”  Where now, India, which has been antagonistic towards Pakistan since its inception, is now tweeting in the thousands messages of support under the hashtag IndiawithPakistan. A bereaved parent in Peshawar, Pakistan said “the smallest coffins are the heaviest ones to lift.”
  • The USA has dropped its decades long isolation policy against its near neighbor Cuba. At the same time as admitting that the torture and rendition policies used after 9/11 were ineffective in producing intelligence. Something that history made clear long ago. Other countries including the United Kingdom, Jordan, Egypt, Poland and others all were involved too although now desperately trying to shed responsibility or blame.
  • A young boy is being shunned in his village in China because he was born with HIV – a common reaction to those with this disease in China.

Lord, have mercy and forgive us our cruelty and lack of love for each other especially when we encounter differences.

Thankfully we hear of people celebrating differences and difficulties transforming them into challenges. The nativity plays put on by children with multiple health and learning disabilities, goes to the truth and heart of Advent and Christmas.  Christ comes for us all, black, white, brown, yellow, male, female, transgender, able-bodied and those with life-limiting conditions whether of body or mind. So often, the worst things that happen are done by those who are deformed in their soul, but Christ is born for each one of them too.

These prayers from different faith traditions have helped me refocus on God, our hope and source of life.

  • Bahá’í – Be a breath of life unto the body of humankind a dew upon the human heart, and a fruit upon the tree of humility.
  • Christian – Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. Blessed be the Peacemakers, for they shall be called the Children of God.
  • Confucian – First there must be order and harmony within your own heart. Only then can there be peace and harmony in the world.
  • Hindu – Oh God, lead us from the unreal to the Real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality. God’s peace, peace, peace to all.
  • Jain – Peace and universal love is the essence of all the teachings. Forgive do I creatures all, and let all creatures forgive me.
  • Jewish – Oh come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, that we may walk the paths of the Most High. And we will beat our swords into ploughshares and our spears into pruning hooks.
  • Muslim – Praise be to the Lord of the Universe. Who has created us and made us into tribes and nations that we may know each other, not despise each other.
  • Native African – For you are one who does not hesitate to respond to our call, you are the cornerstone of peace.
  • Native American – Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love, to respect and to be kind to one another that we may grow with peace in mind.
  • Sikh – Know that we find God when we love, and only that victory endures in consequence of which no one is defeated.
  • Zoroastrian – We pray to God that understanding will triumph over ignorance, that generosity will triumph over indifference, that trust will triumph over contempt, and that truth will triumph over falsehood

God of Advent, / among refugees and outcasts / you breathed your first breaths. / In the cry of a newborn child you proclaimed / Emmanuel, God-with-us. / Come, God of the margins, / breathe into us the spirit of longing for your Kingdom. / Come this Advent to make us dream of / and work for / a better world of justice and freedom. / Come Lord, come. / Amen. (Dave Broom, Iona Community)

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World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, December 11, 2014

World in Prayer, Dec. 11th

 

Stir up your power, Lord Christ, and come. With your abundant grace and might, free us from the sin that would obstruct your mercy, that willingly we might bear your redeeming love to all the world.

 

We long for this stirring, O God, as we look around our world in this holy season of Advent, as we see the darkness into which we long for your light of justice and hope to shine.

  • In the United States, where both black and white have been deeply affected by the deaths of young black men at the hands of the police.

We pray for them all.

  • In the death of Palestinian cabinet minister, Ziad Abu Ain, in a clash with Israeli troops during a rally on the West Bank.

We pray for them all.

  • In the legal confrontation between big Pharma and the government of India over the push for the restructuring of India’s drug patent laws, which would be at the expense of the poor.

We pray for them all.

  • In the economic report that there are an estimated 2.4 billion people worldwide living on less than $2 per day, even as the wealth of the wealthy grows exponentially.

We pray for them all.

 

Stir up your power, Lord Christ, and come.

 

We long for this stirring, O God, as we look into the darkness of these winter nights and seek for the light of justice.

  • In the revelations about the use by of extreme interrogation techniques- torture-

by the American CIA, in spite of supposed adherence to the Geneva Convention against torture.

Our hearts are heavy as we pray.

  • In the extremities of weather across the globe, with people suffering the effects of storms in the Philippines and the eastern United States and California.

Our hearts are heavy as we pray.

  • In the continued arrests of pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong.

Our hearts are heavy as we pray.

  • In the report released in Brazil about the systematic murder and torture in the 20th century by the military dictatorship.

Our hearts are heavy as we pray.

 

Stir up your power, Lord Christ, and come.

 

We long for this stirring, O God, as we look into the darkness, and seek for the light of hope.

  • In the just-concluded meeting of officials from 158 countries in Vienna, Austria, where they set the goal of working toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

We pray with hopeful hearts.

  • In Lima, Peru, where diplomats from 196 countries are gathered for talks on climate change, with the possibility of a historic agreement on combating global warming.

We pray with hopeful hearts.

Gather all of these concerns into your loving, compassionate, eminently just arms, O God, for they are too heavy for us to bear alone. We rest in your promise to be with us always, and we long for the coming again of the Prince of Peace, the Mighty Counsellor, the Immanuel.

 

Stir up your power, Lord Christ, and come. Let it be so. Amen

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World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014

Oh. Dear. God.
No.  Not again.
I thought I knew what I was going to write for tonight’s prayers.
And then I turned on the computer,
and read that in the United States, yet another unarmed Black man had been shot, dead, by a police officer.
Jesus.

I am speechless, beyond shock.
Everything I could have said, has already been said better,
by someone else.

Let me say it one more time:  Black lives matter.
Black innocent lives matter.
Black criminals’ lives matter.
No more killing.  No more police trained or mis-trained or untrained or unintentionally slanted
against our people. Any of our people.
Black lives matter.

We are told to voice our prayers to God as directly, as unrestrainedly, as in the Psalms.  To ask, exactly, specifically, for what we want.
We are told that when two or more of us are gathered in his name, Jesus will be among us.

Jesus, pray with us.  Hear us.

I want…I want…I want something that only exists in science fiction movies.  The ones where the aliens arrive and, horrified by all the violence by humans, impose a force field that prevents any weapon from firing. No guns. No grenades. No bombs. Something that will make every single person who is tempted to use a weapon out of fear, or anger, or betrayal, for revenge, for power, out of assurance that theirs is the right way or the only way or the God-declared way, in rebellion, in grief, in madness, in despair…something that will make every single person pause and feel everything their would-be victim will experience, and every bit of grief their victim’s family and friends and nation would feel.  I want an end to violence from Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen, threatening to kill a British-born U.S. hostage; from whichever group is responsible for the car bomb targeting a United Nations convoy that ended up killing three Somali security personnel; from the Islamic militants who attacked a quarry in the  northeastern part of Kenya and executed 36 innocent workers; from whoever set fire to a classroom in an Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem, Israel, leaving anti-Arab slogans behind; and on and on and on.  I want it to stop.  Now.

Jesus, pray with us.  Hear us.

I want to believe…oh, how I want to believe…that when Pope Francis and 11 leaders representing the Muslim, Jewish, Orthodox, Anglican, Buddhist and Hindu faiths met this week at the Vatican, in Rome, and signed a declaration committing to work together to eradicate slavery worldwide by 2020… I want to believe that this will really make a difference.  I want to believe that by 2020, slavery will no longer exist in Mauritania, Uzbekstan, Haiti, Qatar, or India – the countries where modern-day slavery is most prevalent.  the estimated nearly 36 million people are currently caught in some form of modern slavery will be freed.  I want to believe that there will be a path back to wholeness for every single one of the estimated 36 million persons born into servitude, trafficked for sex work, trapped in debt bondage, or exploited for forced labor.  I want to believe that there will be a path back to wholeness for ex-gang members in El Salvador; for children forced to serve as soldiers in Central African Republic and Liberia; for the patients who have been brutalized and raped in Federico Mora (Mental) Hospital in Guatemala. I want to believe that there will be a path back to whole even for the abusers, the tyrants, the enslavers.

Jesus, pray with us.  Hear us.

I want…I want…I want to trust that in your time, Jesus – no, in OUR time – that we will be able to say, “All lives matter” without anyone feeling belittled or unheard, because all lives will be valued.  I want us to go confidently forth in compassion, in love.

Come, Lord Jesus, Come.

 

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World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, August 7, 2014

God of grace and God of mercy, be among us.

So much evil is done in your name, O God. So much that is not favorable in your sight is done in your name. We know that you are love; we know you loathe the ugliness humans create.

God of grace and God of mercy, be among us.

Be among the horrors of ethnic cleansing caused by the Islamist State in Iraq. Be among the children as they starve and women as they are sold and the dead as they are buried under rocks. Be among the victims of exile: Shabaks, Turkmens, Yazidis, Christians, Shiites, and Sunnis.

God of grace and God of mercy, be among us.

Be among the increasing tensions between Russia and the United States, European Union, and Australia. Be among Russian citizens as their government imposes a food ban that may affect their access to meat, milk, and produce.

God of grace and God of mercy, be among us.

Be among the potential cease fire agreements formed between Israel and Gaza. Be among the 1,875 killed in Gaza, of which the United Nations claims at least 85% are civilian and 415 were children. Be among the 64 Israeli soldiers and 3 civilians killed in Israel. Be among those who grieve them.

God of grace and God of mercy, be among us.

Be among the conversations between US President Obama and 40 African leaders at their summit in Washington, DC. Be among the Ebola virus outbreak in Western Africa: the victims, their health care providers, their transporters, and their families.

God of grace and God of mercy, be among us.

As we see in communities near and far that “different” can lead to death, be among us. As we see streets crowded with those whose homes and places of worship and hospitals and families have been destroyed, be among us.

God of grace and God of mercy, be among us. Bring us peace.

Amen.

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World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, July 17, 2014

Precious Lord, take my hand,
Lead me on, let me stand,
I am tired, I am weak, I am worn;
Through the storm, through the night,
Lead me on to the light,
Take my hand, precious Lord,
Lead me home.

 

Even as we sing, even as we pray, Precious Lord, our thoughts turn to those for whom ‘home’ has become an uncertain and unsafe place, for whom ‘home’ is but a hope-filled dream. For those of us who know this place of safety and comfort, our minds strain to comprehend what its loss means to so many, and so we turn our thoughts and hearts and hope to them this day.

 

  • To all those in the path of Typhon Rammasun in the Pacific- the people of the Philippines who have already experienced its devastation and the people of coastal China, where its track is headed.

 

Have mercy, Lord, and lead them home.

 

  • To the 450 children in Zamora, Mexico, who have been removed from a children’s home because they have been subjected to sexual abuse and forced to beg on the streets by the very people who were to be caring for them.

 

Have mercy, Lord, and lead them home.

 

  • To the Palestinian people of Gaza, that ancient land, where the death tolls mount and 100,000 have been warned to leave their homes by the Israelis, in preparation for another bombardment.

 

Have mercy, Lord, and lead them home.

 

  • To the forty detainees on hunger strikes at the Bagram detention facility in Afghanistan, detained in secret by the American military, with no legal rights and whose families are kept in the dark about their whereabouts and condition.

 

Have mercy, Lord, and lead them home.

 

  • To those suffering with the soaring temperatures in England and Wales, on the eastern coast and southwest region of the United States.

 

Have mercy, Lord, and lead them home.

  • To the people of Syria, Ukraine, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gaza, where so many have been forced from their homes and the lives they have known, only to become homeless refugees in strange and often-hostile places.

 

Have mercy, Lord, and lead them home.

 

  • To the refugee children from Central America, fleeing violence and extreme poverty in their homelands, in the hope of a new home and welcome in the United States, only to be often met by hostility and anger and fear.

 

Have mercy, Lord, and lead them home.

 

  • To the United States Navy nurse who has risked his career and the animus of others by refusing to force-feed hunger strike prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

 

Have mercy, Lord, and lead them home.

 

  • To all of the countless others, unknown to us but surely known to you, Benevolent God: those who roam the streets of cities everywhere with no place to lay their heads and nowhere to call their home; those in the grip of dark depression who have lost all hope of ever having a meaningful life; and those of us who are so far removed from the suffering of our sisters and brothers that we remain oblivious to what is their everyday reality.

 

Have mercy, Lord, and lead them home

 

When the darkness appears
And the night draws near,
And the day is past and gone,
At the river I stand,
Guide my feet, hold my hand,
Take my hand, precious Lord,
Lead me home.

 

Lead us all, home, Precious Lord, lead us home. Amen

 

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World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, July 10, 2014

Lord, we love our sports, games, competition. Winners and losers, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat, we love it all.

But Lord, we mix our metaphors, we mistake life for games, we use the language of war for the playing fields. Remind us, God, that the Middle East is not a playing field. With the horrific murders of 3 Israeli teenagers and 1 Palestinian youth, the score is not 3-1 for either side. Help us to see that everyone is losing, there is no gold medal for breaking the most hearts, tearing asunder the most families, dashing the most hopes. The true score of daily evil is nil-nil, nothing to celebrate.

Yet, Holy One, you have given us a heart for victory. We yearn for good to triumph over evil, for health to defeat sickness, for justice to overwhelm injustice, for peace to prevail.

In the tragic corners of our world or our daily lives, may we find our truest triumph in choosing your will and your way, even when such faith is to mock death itself: “O Death, where is thy victory?”

Holy God, perhaps we can learn from the world of sports. Your scriptures urge us to run our race with perseverance, to finish well what we start, to not allow ourselves to be overtaken, to claim the fruit of victory. Let us bring such youthful, competitive exuberance into our world of faith.

When we cheer on the excellence of our favorite teams and players, remind us that we are cheering the result of years of practice, discipline, sacrifice, and teamwork. Challenge us, God, to exercise the best in the world in our own lives lived fully for you. Amen.

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World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, April 24, 2014

O Lord, we doubt and we believe. Help us to hold both our doubt and our belief lightly so we may be astonished and overjoyed when we see you, wounded and whole, living in our world.

We doubt we will see peace: in Syria, in Ukraine, between Israelis and Palestinians, even sometimes within our own families. Yet you, O Lord, are the Prince of Peace. Help us to bring peace to our world.

We doubt we will see comfort: for the families of those who died in the Korean ferry disaster or for over 100 girls kidnapped from their school in Nigeria. Yet you, O Lord, are our comforter. Help us to bring comfort to our world.

We doubt we will see health: for those suffering from chronic illnesses, for those affected by malaria and other diseases, or for those who are malnourished. Yet you, O Lord, healed those who came to you. Help us to bring healing to our world.

Our Lord and our God: Help us to come to believe. May we be present when you appear among us and may we share the good news of your presence to the world, sharing your peace, comfort, and healing with everyone.

Amen.

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World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday, February 13, 2014

Calm me, Lord

Calm me, Lord, as you calmed the storm;
Still me, Lord, keep me from harm,
Let all the tumult within me cease,
enfold me, Lord, in your peace.

Text: David Adam

What a maelstrom of events is present in the news this week.  Torrential unseasonal rain in Indonesia has affected the Pacific gulfstream, which in turn has affected the gulfstream over North America causing drought in California, the polar freeze over large sections of the rest of the continent. This in turn has disrupted the Atlantic gulfstream so Ireland and the United Kingdom have been battered by hurricane strength winds, and the wettest winter in over 250 years resulting in extensive floods. And the end is not in sight… And this is not just occurring in the northern hemisphere… You have given us charge to live in harmony with all of your creation and with each other… Lord, teach us how to live in this way, but first of all teach us daily how to live in harmony with You.

Hear our cry and teach us, God.

Lord, we pray for all working to ease the havoc and destruction caused by the weather.  We pray for wisdom in how we work together to prevent such catastrophes or at least for learning how to mitigate their effects.  The ribbon of life binds us all together wherever we are in the world, and our actions have reactions and our choices have consequences.  Open our eyes to the life force breathed into us by you at Creation, so we can live truly as members of one body.

Hear our cry and teach us, God.

We give thanks for the extended temporary ceasefire in Syria to rescue some people from Homs.  We ask for forgiveness for the actions and inactions that have prevented bringing peace to this horrendous conflict.  It brings to mind the horrors of Srebrenica in Bosnia, and the pattern is being repeated in Syria, Israel, the West Bank, Afghanistan, Iraq, Mexico, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and so many other countries.

Lord, have mercy, and bring peace to your suffering peoples…

We celebrate the good news and joy that is brought from the efforts of the athletes at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.  We recall all those who have been displaced or suffered in any way for the Olympic facilities to be made ready.  We give thanks that in the middle of such human mess, there are flashes of inspiration and truly generous, open-hearted support of each other by athletes of competing nations.

Lord, we praise you and give you thanks.

We give thanks too for the good news of communities, often themselves facing hardship, like the small church of Tron St. Mary’s, in Balornock, Glasgow, Scotland, who, faced with a large immigrant population and great deprivation, have sought and obtained funding to extend their work within the community, growing and sharing food, skills, and helping people settle and be welcomed as part of the community no matter their faith or country of origin.

Lord, bless them and all like them as they spread your light and love where they are.

As so many celebrate or feel pressured to celebrate St Valentine’s Day, we remember those who produce flowers for us in developing countries often in conditions which would not be allowed where we live.  We pray for those for whom there is no one to make them feel special, or those who have lost that special someone… Lord, help us to share with each other, whether as a couple or as single people, the deep abiding love which can only truly be found in You and which even in the best human relationship is but a faint reflection of Your love for each one of us.

And so Lord,

“My whole being desires you … Your constant love is better than life itself, and so I will praise you … I will give you thanks as long as I live … My soul will feast and be satisfied.. all night long I think of you … I cling to you…”

        -Selected from Psalm 63: 1 – 8

Amen.

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