Week 3, Day 2

+ We draw near to God, Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer.

Silence

Readings

Silence

Humility

• We believe that all people are loved by God, regardless of age, gender, education, class, ethnicity, sexuality or physical/mental health and that God works through all believers - and others beside.

Call to mind people you've met this week.

Picture their faces.

Remember the conversations you held with them

Or the impressions they left on you.

And hold them before God.

Holy God

the Bible is filled with stories

of you working through

the unlikely,

the despised,

the stranger,

the enemy,

and you constantly shocked

those who were called your own

and offended their sensibilities.

And for that we thank you!

When we get precious about

who's in and who's out

remind us again of our role models:

Abraham and Sarah, the travellers

Shiphrah and Puah, the Hebrew midwives

Ruth and Boaz, the boundary breakers

Cyrus and Darius, the faithful outsiders

and all those restored by Jesus

to their full humanity,

and all those in the history of your people

who have defied convention

in subversive ways.

In Jesus you showed us how to love

those who are not like us

but who are adored by you.

Help us to love our neighbours too

and to see you reflected in their faces.

Free prayer

The Lord's Prayer

Lord, in your mercy

Let your kingdom come!