{"id":20875,"date":"2021-08-22T14:24:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T13:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=20875"},"modified":"2021-08-22T14:24:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T13:24:43","slug":"prayers-for-our-time-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/?p=20875","title":{"rendered":"Prayers for our time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><main class=\"template-page content  av-content-small alpha units\" role=\"main\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-92128\">\n<div class=\"entry-content-wrapper clearfix\">\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \">\n<div class=\"avia_textblock  \">\n<h2>God of redemption,<\/h2>\n<p>your challenge is peace.<br \/>\nGiven not as the world gives it \u2013 with limits, conditions and reversibility,<br \/>\nbut unconditionally \u2013 with infinite love.<br \/>\nWe pray today for those of us who find ourselves<br \/>\nin places we do not want to inhabit \u2013<br \/>\na home or community where we no longer feel welcome;<br \/>\nan identity that feels cut off at its roots.<br \/>\nWe pray for those of us with feelings we do not know what to do with \u2013<br \/>\nloss and grief,<br \/>\nfear and anxiety,<br \/>\naggression and vengeance,<br \/>\nexclusion and banishment,<br \/>\nuncertainty about our future.<br \/>\nBless us now, whatever we feel and whoever we are.<br \/>\nDwell in our souls deeply.<br \/>\nGive us the courage to tell our stories honestly and openly;<br \/>\nthe compassion to hear the stories of others with an open heart;<br \/>\nthe discipline to share what we have;<br \/>\nthe discernment to advocate for those more vulnerable than we are,<br \/>\nand the means to be agents of care and connection,<br \/>\njustice and hope \u2013<br \/>\nto seek out and celebrate the life and joy in our communities,<br \/>\nsetting a tone in harmony with you.<br \/>\nWe ask these things in the name of Jesus and those who came after him,<br \/>\nwho lived in times of bitter conflict,<br \/>\nwho were perplexed but not driven to despair,<br \/>\nafflicted in every way, but not crushed,<br \/>\npersecuted, but not forsaken.<br \/>\nAll the time, proclaiming you.<\/p>\n<p>Amen<\/p>\n<p>Prayer by Alison Webster<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/main><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God of redemption, your challenge is peace. Given not as the world gives it \u2013 with limits, conditions and reversibility, but unconditionally \u2013 with infinite love. We pray today for those of us who find ourselves in places we do not want to inhabit \u2013 a home or community where we no longer feel welcome; an identity that feels cut off at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-news","category-prayer","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20876,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20875\/revisions\/20876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ducklingtonchurch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}