by Sharon Nicolle
Dear God,
With awe we approach this new decade thanking You for our blessings and reflecting on the years that have passed. Your world, Lord, is a contrast of beauty, acts of compassion and technical wonders as well as devestating chaos, hunger and injustice. Please help the world, Lord, to deal with climate change and find an end to war and suffering.
God, one year ago we gathered up our things along with our memories and tears and left our beloved old church building behind. As young and old marched through the snow, it was with trepidation that we journeyed towards a new place and a brave plan knowing only that You were with us and that it was the right thing to do. And then a wondrous thing happened: our stay in the desert became a positive, even a joyous and unifying thing. We thank You for our beautiful oasis, Lord; this beautiful space filled with light, warmth and music. We thank You for our ministers: Linda and Ray, as well as the many who helped and are helping with the organization and set-up up of our church space every Sunday. We thank You for dedicated committee members, Sunday School leaders and donors of money, time and spirit, who ensure that the mission of St. John's "to be a welcoming place, open and inclusive for all", is alive in all we do.
Be with us now, Lord as we travel forward into this new year. Bless Brian, Louisa and the whole Implementation Team as they deal with the next steps of our re-development. As You once said to Jeremiah "I have set you this day...to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant." And beyond this, help us to remember that we are the plan, we are Your plan.
May each of us do unto others as we would have others do to us, helping the poor, the sad and the hungry; trusting in You as we go and believing in the one who has taken the Ultimate Journey for us, Your Son Jesus, in whose name we pray,
Amen.
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