{"id":19338,"date":"2026-05-09T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/?p=19338"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:33:37","slug":"prayer-for-the-week-saturday-9th-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/prayer-for-the-week-saturday-9th-may-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for the Week &#8211; Saturday 9th May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Prayer for the Week &#8211; Healing<\/h3>\n<h4><strong>God of Resurrection Light,<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>whose mercy rises with the morning,<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>and whose tenderness meets us in every wound,<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>we come to you seeking healing.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Where bodies ache, bring ease.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Where minds are troubled, bring calm.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Where spirits feel dimmed or forgotten,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>breathe again your restoring breath.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table style=\"height: 17px;\" width=\"7\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"300\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Scot2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19339\" src=\"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Scot2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Scot2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Scot2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Scot2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Scot2-1200x681.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Scot2.jpg 1210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Gather up the pieces of our days<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>that feel fractured or fragile.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Hold gently the stories we carry,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>the ones spoken aloud<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>and the ones we whisper only to you.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>May your healing flow through us<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>like warmth returning to cold hands,<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>like blossom opening after long winter,<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>like hope rekindled in the quiet places.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Make us bearers of that healing, too \u2014<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>listening with compassion,<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>speaking with kindness,<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>walking with those who wait for wholeness.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>God of Easter hope and living light,<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>shine upon us now,<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>and make us whole in your love.<\/strong> <strong>Amen.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barbara Harrison &#8211; Area Trustee Scotland &amp; Shetland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Photo by Tapish on Unsplash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer for the Week &#8211; Healing God of Resurrection Light, whose mercy rises with the morning, and whose tenderness meets us in every wound, we come to you seeking healing. Where bodies ache, bring ease. Where minds are troubled, bring calm. Where spirits feel dimmed or forgotten, breathe again your restoring breath. Gather up the pieces of our days that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[349,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer","category-prayer-for-the-week"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-16 13:07:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19340,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338\/revisions\/19340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}