{"id":19423,"date":"2026-06-13T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/?p=19423"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:34:25","slug":"prayer-for-the-week-saturday-13th-june-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/prayer-for-the-week-saturday-13th-june-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for the Week &#8211; Saturday 13th June 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Once upon a time, Creator God,<\/h3>\n<h3>you brought a world into being: of beauty, variety, design and purpose.<\/h3>\n<h3>You saw that it was good; it gave you joy and delight.<\/h3>\n<h3>You created us in your image; told us to care for all that you had made.<\/h3>\n<h3>Yet we fail to reveal your loving nature;<\/h3>\n<h3>the sweet harmony of Eden has been lost.<\/h3>\n<h3>Earth is crying out in pain ad so are we.<\/h3>\n<h3>We see the damage we have done;<\/h3>\n<h3>we fall on our knees and beg your forgiveness.<\/h3>\n<h3><em>Pause <\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Thanks be to God! Creation sings to us, reminds us of your love.<\/h3>\n<h3>The cock crows, the dove coos, the sparrow sings<\/h3>\n<h3>and we have hope through Christ.<\/h3>\n<h3>May we too sing a new song, a chorus in eternity.<\/h3>\n<h3>Thanks be to God. Allelujah. Amen<\/h3>\n<p><em>Alison Judd\u00a0 MWiB Ambassador Southampton District<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Printed in the Methodist Prayer Handbook 2025\/2026 Day 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, Creator God, you brought a world into being: of beauty, variety, design and purpose. You saw that it was good; it gave you joy and delight. You created us in your image; told us to care for all that you had made. Yet we fail to reveal your loving nature; the sweet harmony of Eden has [&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-19423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer","category-prayer-for-the-week"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 16:26:15","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\/19423","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=19423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19425,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19423\/revisions\/19425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwib.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}