Prayers
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AMEN CORNER – we pray at home – for Christians in Kenya, attacked and threatened by Somali militants – for churches in Northumberland from Berwick to Amble – for chaplains: Nigel Goodfellow, Rob Hawkins, Eunice Attwood ... – for greater cooperation between Christians in our local area January 16, 2012, was the 150th anniversary of the Hartley Colliery disaster, when 204 men and boys lost their lives. We pray for all who work in hazardous jobs, and those who are trying to make them safer. Ever-giving Lord, mistaken by Mary as the gardener, teach us how to tend the garden of our giving. May the cuts and pruning that we have to make encourage new growth that can feed the Kingdom’s cause. All that we have, all that we are, comes first from you. Yet so often we try to hold tight to them. Forgive us, and help us to see that it is in sharing generously all that we are and have that we are your faithful stewards, serving the Kingdom and glorifying you. Amen. |