Today we welcome Wendy and Andrew McCulloch, who are heading overseas shortly with GIA. We look forward to hearing what they have to share with us, and our connection with one another as part of the global village. Indeed, this last week has seen just how small our globe is, and how inter-connected we are as an international community. As we prepare for Swine Flu, may we be mindful that we live in a country where it is easy to forget that our connections extend across the planet, and that what happens to one of us affects another. I share with you part of this prayer from Be Our Freedom, Lord.
“We pray for those who find it hard to believe because they have too many things, and for those who find it hard because they haven’t enough.
We pray for those who have more to eat than they need,
and those who are dying from lack of food.
We pray for parents who, because of their poverty, and a lack of concern on the part of others, must watch their children die.
We pray for those who face each day with dread, because their lives are so dominated by the power of others.
We pray for those who are so lonely that life is robbed of all loveliness and hope.
Lord, we pray because our love for you is a love for One whose compassion embraces all human suffering.
We pray because you are in our midst, and have made people in their need present to us, and us aware of them.
We pray because you call us as your disciples to reach out from ourselves to all our fellow human beings.
Amen.
