{"id":18307,"date":"2024-09-07T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T23:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/?p=18307"},"modified":"2024-09-05T16:57:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T15:57:55","slug":"prayer-for-the-week-7th-september-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/2024\/09\/07\/prayer-for-the-week-7th-september-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for the Week 7th September 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prayer for the Week<\/p>\n

w\/c 7th<\/sup> September 2024<\/p>\n

This month is a Season for Harvest Festivals and as we look at all the abundant fruits and vegetables that have been growing ready for this season, may we give thanks and praise to God for the Sunshine and the Rain that helps them to grow.\u00a0 \u00a0I can remember fantastic harvest Services in my childhood when my Mum would prepare a shoe box the day before for my brother and myself to carry to the front of the Church.\u00a0 In one half was potatoes, carrots, runner beans and in the other half was apples, plums, tomatoes and blackberries.\u00a0 She used to lay them so precisely in the boxes on tissue paper and make sure they were not toppling over the edge (in case we dropped them or spilt them when taking them to the front).\u00a0 \u00a0The whole Church was decorated with vegetables, fruit and flowers of every colour and description you could think of.\u00a0 The whole church looked wonderful.\u00a0\u00a0 Over the past 5 years or so our Church donates to the local food bank and somehow the decorations in the Church do not feel or look the same as my memories.\u00a0 The food content is the same as so many tins contain the necessary food for nourishment and fulfillment but the table looks so different.\u00a0\u00a0 How things have changed over the years but it is good we still share what we have with others and that is God\u2019s Love through our food.\u00a0\u00a0 We used to have a faith lunch at Church and share what we had with others in the Church and enjoy talking while eating which is usually a very sociable time so we get to have conversations with people we may not speak to every week.\u00a0\u00a0 Now we have a faith tea as our harvest is in the afternoon but it is still the same \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026sharing what we have with others and having conversations around the table\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.just as Jesus did with his disciples when having supper.\u00a0\u00a0 It is good that we can socialise on special occasions as well as Worship and Praise God for all his goodness to each one of us.<\/p>\n

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PRAYER:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All Good gifts around us are sent from Heaven above so Thank the Lord, O thank the Lord for all his Love.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0We thank you for the gifts of nature Lord and we praise you for the friends around our tables.\u00a0 May we have conversations that flourish our faith, feed our friendships and fortify our feelings.\u00a0\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n

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Rita Rowe –\u00a0 Trustee \u00a0for Lincolnshire and East Anglia<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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