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Spreading Love & Hope...

A daily home devotion to help us stay connected during these unusual times -
through prayer, music and God's word.
Welcome to today's Mothering Sunday home devotion. With church gatherings suspended, we gather and share through telephone & technology. If you have something to share -- news, a prayer, a song, a reflection -- please send them to us by email. Blessings & peace, Ana & Tod
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Mothering Sunday

Today we would usually be enjoying joy-filled Junior Church's presentations, distributing daffodils (or wooden tulips) and taking our Mums (or be taken) out for dinner. This year we will be connecting through phone and internet calls and noticing a bit more acutely what pandemic separation means. As many elderly mothers now live alone, we can call those members of our church and bring some connectedness and joy into their day.
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Mothering Sunday Music

From Spice to John Lennon to Joni Mitchell -- an eclectic collection of songs from popular culture about our Mums.
Faith of our Mothers - sing new words to a traditional tune...
Please send in your favourite music links to share in future devotions.

Children's Activity

Here's a precious gift to make and show Grandmother when you Skype or Whatsapp -- It's a handprint with glitter flower petals. (Thanks to Tamsin, Anne & Oliver)
Grandma birthday card - child's foot, Oliver
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Prayer for Mothering Sunday

by Cara Heafey, URC
Mothering God, you birthed the universe into being. Home-maker, your creation is habitat and sustenance to all that lives.
How costly for you our freedom must be. How painful the separation from the parent who has numbered the hairs on our head and written our names on her heart.
Mothering Jesus, you shed your blood to give us life. Of your own flesh, you fed us, saying “this is my body, broken for you.” You taught us with authority and endless patience, how to live and how to love. You beheld your lost and wandering children And longed to gather us in As a hen sheltering her brood beneath her wings.
Mothering Spirit, you dance and weave in the spaces between us. We hear you in the echoes of the stories our mothers told us and in the songs their voices sang. You pull the threads that connect us to one another and to those who have gone ahead of us. Yours is the deep wisdom beyond words, the love that calls us home.
'Keep me safe, O God, for I have come to you for refuge.'
--Psalm 16:1-2

Praying Together

Today, and each day as we go forward, we are invited to join other Christians around the world at 12:00 noon for a time of prayer, making each day a World Day of Prayer. You might set an alarm for 11:59, find a comfortable place to sit and turn your thoughts to God.

Also the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have issued a call for today to be a national day of prayer and have asked everyone to light a candle and to put it in a window at 19:00 this evening as a visible sign of the light of Christ, our source of hope in prayer.
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Mothering Sunday Reflection

'Mothering Sunday
and Coronavirus kindness'
Take time today to tune into a programme about how mothers are faring and helping during this trying time. On Good Morning Sunday, Jason Mohammad celebrates mums with poet Hussain Manawer and writer Clover Stroud and hears stories of love and compassion during this anxious time.
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Sermon Podcasts &

Live streaming worship

Several United Reformed Church (URC) congregations are live streaming acts of worship, offering sermons as podcasts or audio files, or offering recordings of services. Click the button for a list of these churches and the links.
Bible on stand, Salisabury URC
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