Prayers
and poems November November
is a spinner Margaret
Rose Every
Hour a Kingdom Every
hour a kingdom is coming in your heart, Henry
Drummond From
‘A Mirror Set at the Right Angle’ A
prayer for protection Withdraw
not Thy hand, O my God, from me here, From
Poems of the Western Highlanders Holocaust
Day On
21 November, during the 50 days between First Fruits and
Pentecost (or Weeks) there lies a more modern day on the
Jewish calendar. It is Holocaust Day, Yom Ha Shoah –
the Day of Calamity. Yom Ha Shoah
recalls the destruction of European Jewry under the
unspeakable horrors of the Nazi regime. Here is a poem
written by Eva Pickova, age 12, in My
heart still beats inside my breast Advent
desire O
King of the nations, you are the headstone of the
glorious hall of creation. You are the firm mortar which
holds the building together. Throughout the earth people
marvel at your works. But now the building is being
reduced to a ruin by greed and fear. Reveal yourself to
mankind, show yourself as the ruler of the world,
demonstrate the power of your love… From
The Loving
God by
Thomas Munzer (c1490 – 1525) Loving
God, we give thanks for the birth of your son Jesus
Christ, both in human form in A
prayer for Brotherhood O
God, who has ordained that all men should live and work
together as brethren, remove, we humbly beseech you, from
those who are now at variance, all spirit of strife and
all occasion for bitterness that, seeking only what is
just and equal, they may ever continue in brotherly union
and concord. Lead us out of the night of this conflict
into the day of justice. Give us grace to be instruments
of the kingdom of love and justice in the affairs of
mankind; and patience in dealing with all the sins and
selfishness of men, and humility in recognizing our own,
that we may judge wisely between a man and his brother,
between nations and peoples; and, by composing their
differences, build them up into a true community of
nations. A
prayer of Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) |