Imagine What Is Behind That Wall
Just a copy of Today's Prayer (June 27) from the Church of Scotland's Pray Now site. I love the Prayer Activity. Hope Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead... 1 Peter 1:3 Prayer There! There, between the moment I call ‘now’, and the moment that comes next, sits hope , between the days whose weight has borne down on us, in lack of movement, lack of change, the lumpen oppression of the ‘aye been’ and the sheer terrorism of ‘and what’s going to change?’ – there hope sits. For Hope is the possibility that should not be, that to this eternal, hopeless ‘now’ linked by steel chains to what was, and what shall be, ‘same old same old ...’ there is a beyond . Whether we recognise it or not, Lord, hope is the mark of your sovereignty, and our liberation. Hope is your gift. There, between the faith that is trust, and the love that is s