This week’s Stilling Video from the Sunday Service was Shaped by the Seas Hand filmed at Duncansby Head
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Our reading in Jeremiah was full of the sorrow and pain of a broken world, of a people who had suffered war, and oppression and were far from God on whom they had relied but whom they had ignored and wandered far from.
A new hymn this week was 721 in CH4, written by Anna Briggs.
“We lay our broken world in sorrow at your feet,
haunted by hunger, war, and fear, oppressed by power and hate.”
As we too look at our country and the world around us this mirrors our feelings at what we see and hear; hunger and fear of the future in our own country and, elsewhere, so much war, famine, and destruction.
Verse 2 of the hymn reminds us,
“Here human life seems less than profit, might, and pride,
though to unite us all in you, you lived and loved and died.”
As Psalm 46 (used in our call to worship) puts it,
“God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear.
Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;
The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.”
Or as the Lord’s prayer says,
“give us this day our daily bread,
forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors,
lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil,
FOR THINE is the Kingdom the power and the glory for ever”
Amen
