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Spreading Love & Hope...
Welcome to today's devotion. These resources have been gathered for your use at home during these days of physical social isolation 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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Thanks for the wonderful photos, poems and prayers that keep coming in. These flowers were captured on Fiona's walk through Alderberry.
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Blessings & peace, Ana & Tod
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Kindness
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Thanks to Fiona for sharing this.
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To recap what we now know: it did not begin
in a laboratory in Wuhan, nor with a pangolin or bat,
but it already lay dormant within us, like a seed
in need of certain conditions to grow;
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its symptoms are many and various,
and may include some, or all, of the following:
tear drops, sudden laughter, a feeling of warmth,
and a peculiar uplifting of the heart;
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it leaves its traces everywhere: from boxes
left on doorsteps to conversations over fences;
it can be transmitted over vast distances,
through a phone call, or from a smile across a street,
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or a certain softness of tone spoken beside
a hospital bed; it affects young and old equally;
there is no race or gender immune from it;
it has the power to topple bad governments;
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if one person were to pass it on to just three others
and they, in turn, were to pass it on to three more,
in no time at all, the world would be full of it,
and where, might we ask ourselves, would we be then.
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![Prayer 2020_ It's Time to Pray[23038]_Moment](https://salisburyurc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Prayer-2020_-Its-Time-to-Pray23038_Moment-500x360.jpg)
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Thank to Elizabeth for reminding us of the 2020 Prayer Campaign promoted by Churches Together. For suggestions from Hope Together on prayer points for the 20 minutes click here.
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Prayer for Wednesday 20th May 2020
God of Love, thank you for the gift of your Holy Spirit.
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Help me to pray for five people who don’t yet know you.
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Please work in their lives to open their hearts and minds to your love
and truth shown to us in Jesus.
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Help me to speak to them about you.
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May they be led by the Holy Spirit to follow you.
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Music
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Jo Baird, a member of Nairn United Reformed Church, is pleased for her song to be used in any way that his helpful for our people. Click the button above to hear her singing.
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Jo sang 'Nightingales' during a URC Sunday zoom service led by the Rev'd Janet Sutton Webb. You can can download the song here. You can see the lyrics here. Jo has also written out the melody with chords written above which you can see here. Finally, she's written out the lyrics with chords above them here.
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Send in your favourite music links to share.
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Whatever way love's camel takes
My heart has become capable of every form:
It is a pasture for gazelles
And a monastery for Christian monks,
And a temple for idols,
And the pilgrim's Ka'ba,
And the tablets of the Torah,
And the book of the Koran.
I follow the religion of Love:
Whatever way love's camel takes,
that is my religion, my faith.
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-Ibn Arabi 1165-1240
Image: The Ascension, Gherarducci from a Gradual circa1395
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Sunday Worship on-line 10:30
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Andover, Broad Chalke & Salisbury congregations of the United Reformed Church gather for worship. Everyone is welcome. To join the Zoom worship service, click on the button above.
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Click on the blue button above to visit Worship Words for prayers and reflections related to the Lectionary Readings for this Easter season.
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Trouble seeing the photos?
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In case you missed it...
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Yesterdays' Daily Home Devotions
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