A QUOTE, A TEXT AND A PRAYER…OR TWO. From September 8 − 12 the events of 9/11, 2001 shape these daily readings
A QUOTE
The world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. Helen Keller
A TEXT
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” I John 4:6,16
AND A PRAYER…OR TWO
Transforming God: take my anger, and make of it a well-spring of compassion for the bereaved and distressed; take my revulsion, and make of it a burning desire to overcome wickedness; take my incomprehension, and make of it an open channel through which I may see the realities of evil; take my pity, and make of it a source of remembrance; take my despair, and make of it a fountain of hope: Turn me, O God, from indifference and apathy that I may work to ensure that never again will the sanctity of human life be destroyed in this – or any – way. Amen. A prayer for responsiveness by Canon Chris Chivers
Lord make us instruments of your peace: where there is hatred let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. Grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love: for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen. St Francis of Assisi