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Spreading Love & Hope...
Welcome to this week's devotion. These resources have been gathered for your use at home during these days of physical social distancing and virtual social connection. May this devotion and the links provided help you stay connected to God and the wider community.
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Enjoy Leslie's photos, spanning from May up to this week -- a view on her final Rambler's walk, a clematis from her garden, a field of rape flowers. I 'found' them hiding in my email inbox! Thanks to Joan and Elizabeth for your prayers and reflection, and to Tahira and Valerie for the NHS choir item.
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If you have items to share -- a prayer, song, Bible verse, reflection, photo, link -- please send it, so we can share them with everyone.
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Blessings & peace, Ana & Tod
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Prayer thoughts
from Joan S.
Always pray to have eyes that see the best in people,
a heart that forgives the worst,
a mind that forgets the bad,
and a soul that never loses faith in God.
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And the people stayed home
by Kitty O’Meara
Shared by Monique Cheri, Ana's sister-in-law
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And the people stayed home.
And read books, and listened, and rested,
And exercised, and made art, and played games
And learned new ways of being, and were still.
And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some
Prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows.
And the people began to think differently.
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And the people healed. And, in the absence of
People living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and
Heartless ways, the earth began to heal.
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And when the danger passed,
And the people joined together again,
They grieved their losses, and made new choices, and
Dreamed new images, and created new ways to live
And heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.
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Musical Items
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Find a comfortable place to sit and listen to these moving musical selections.
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'Anytime you need a friend', by Mariah Carey, sung by Breathe Harmony, NHS Choir Shared by Valerie & Tahira
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Enjoy a listen to the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, playing Antonín Dvořák's 'Serenade for Strings in E Major' Op.22.
Recorded live at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
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Recommended by Leslie (in one of those 'lost' emails). Thanks, Leslie!
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Send in your favourite music links to share.
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Testimony from Italy
Shared by Elizabeth
An encouraging testimony by Dr Julian Urban, a 38-year-old doctor in Lombardy, originally shared by Andover Churches Together in the HOPE Newsletter.
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Up until two weeks ago, my colleagues and I were atheists…I always laughed at my parents when they went to church.
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Nine days ago, a 75-year-old pastor came to us for medical help. He had grave respiratory problems, but he had a Bible with him and it impressed us that he was reading the Bible to the people who were dying and holding their hands.
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We were all tired, discouraged doctors, psychologically and physically spent, and so we found that we were listening to him... We realized that we have reached the limits of what people can do. We need God, and we have begun to ask for God's help, when we have a few moments free. We cannot believe that we who were fierce atheists are now seeking for interior peace by asking God to help us...
The 75-year old pastor [has now] died. Yet, despite the fact that in the last three weeks we have had over 120 people die in our unit, and we are all exhausted and feel destroyed, he succeeded, despite his own condition and our own difficulties, to bring us a PEACE that we no longer hoped to find.
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Sunday 15 November
Celebrating the mission & ministry of Global Care
Sunday Worship online and on-the-phone 10:30
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Join in through your computer or using your landline telephone. If you would like to learn more so that you can join us in worship and communion, contact your Church Secretary or the Ministers or reply to this email:
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Andover, Broad Chalke & Salisbury congregations
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of the United Reformed Church gather on Zoom for united worship service.
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Click on the blue button above to visit Worship Words for prayers and reflections for the Sundays of the Pentecost Season.
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Reminder - Tuesday's Corona Christ Care Zoom Group
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14:30-16:00 for fellowship, Bible study and prayer.
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Everyone is welcome. Bring your Bible and a cup of tea.
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Readings prepare us for Sunday worship.
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(Zoom Meeting ID: 852 5929 3409)
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Here's the Zoom link to copy into your browser: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85259293409
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