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Poem: Bread
Poem: Bread
by Marjorie Dobson
Poem: Bread They’d eaten bread in the desert, just like their ancestors. It had provided food for them in their need, as it had done so many years before. So is that all they wanted? Not entirely. No. History repeated itself. Bread and fishes were not enough to satisfy them., jus…
Prayers of Intercession for Lent 1
Prayers of Intercession for Lent 1
by Christine Dutton
Prayers for others and for ourselves for the first Sunday in Lent. These prayers were written to go alongside a service for the first Sunday in Lent, based on the account of the wilderness experience of Jesus in Luke 4: 1-13. The theme of the reflection is that within the wildern…
Sometimes, O God, our weariness
Sometimes, O God, our weariness
by Andrew Pratt
Sometimes, O God, our weariness and pressure on our time can undermine our prayerfulness, our thoughts of the divine. We thirst and long to know your love, to hear your present voice, that in this void, this emptiness, we might, again rejoice. Verse 3 follows Tune: BELMONT Metre:…
The Gospel According to twilight - Thirst, Forbidden Fruit in Forks
The Gospel According to twilight - Thirst, Forbidden Fruit in Forks
by SPCK - Elaine Heath
Thirst Forbidden Fruits in Forks Chapter Four What we really need to know about the Twilight novels, with all their plots, themes, and drama, is that the driving force of this story is desire. This is a tale of unremitting hunger. It is a saga of raw, elemental need and of the le…
Prayer: Generous and caring God