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Daily Reading

Today's City reading:

Week 1, Day 2

Genesis 11:1-9

At one time, the whole Earth spoke the same language. It so happened that, as they moved out of the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled down. They said to one another, ‘Come, let’s make bricks and fire them well.’ They used brick for stone and tar for mortar. Then they said, ‘Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower that reaches Heaven. Let’s make ourselves famous so we won’t be scattered here and there across the Earth.’ GOD came down to look over the city and the tower those people had built. GOD took one look and said, ‘One people, one language; why, this is only a first step. No telling what they’ll come up with next – they’ll stop at nothing! Come, we’ll go down and garble their speech so they won’t understand each other.’ Then GOD scattered them from there all over the world. And they had to quit building the city. That’s how it came to be called Babel, because there GOD turned their language into ‘babble’. From there GOD scattered them all over the world.

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Week 1, Day 2

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

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Relationship

  • We believe that the gospel works through relationships and that serving God consists largely in building life-giving relationships with others.

Call to mind the relationships in your life that you carry in your heart today - family, friends, neighbours, your church community - and as you focus on each of them, imagine God's arms surrounding and holding them.

Are any particular relationships calling for your attention?

Offer your thoughts and feelings about them to God, or simply pray, 'Lord, have mercy,' confident
in the loving work of the God who knows you and the relationships in a way which does not demand
words of explanation.

God
thank you for all those that you’ve placed in our paths
for the sorted and the centred
for the muddled and bemused
for the broken and the fractured
for the searching and confused

In all our relationships
let the piercing light of your love
infuse us and flow through us
challenging the depths of the darkness
offering the hope of new beginnings
providing warmth where hearts are cold
giving strength where wills are weak

In us and through us
let all those we meet today
be touched by your Spirit,
and may we see your presence
reflected in the faces of
friends and strangers

Free prayer

The Lord’s Prayer

Lord, in your mercy
Let your kingdom come!

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