Here's the link to yesterday's service: https://youtu.be/nfAA_upTcKc
Daily Scripture:Make me to know your ways, O Lordand teach me your paths.Lead me in your truth and teach me,For you are the God of my salvation,for you I have hoped all the day long.Remember, Lord, your compassion and love,For they are from everlasting. Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions,but think on me in your goodness, O Lord,According to your steadfast love (Psalm 25: 3-6)Daily Reflection:The Psalmist is asking God for teaching and guidance. How much we can feel at one with him, or her, at this moment. If only someone would guide us! The future seems so unclear, we can feel like we are stumbling about in fog. What is true? Which future scenario seems most likely? Like the Psalmist we have all made some rather dire mistakes, taken some paths that we should better have left alone, both as individuals and as a society, or even as a world population. Now we have to ask God to show us mercy, to forget our wrongdoings and give us another chance, so that we can start to put things right. And we can safely turn to God, whose love for us is steadfast and everlasting. Revd Ylva
Daily Scripture:‘You, my child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way, to give his people knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of their sins.In the tender compassion of our God the dawn from on high shall break upon us, to shine on those who dwell in darkness and in the shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace.’ (Luke 1.75-9)Daily Reflection:There are many who live in the darkness of fear at the present time, and the ‘shadow of death’ is something we are all too aware of. What Zacharias (father of John the Baptist) foresees is not just a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel, but a magnificent new dawn, bringing us the knowledge - knowledge, not just a faint hope - of God’s love and compassion for us. It is this certainty that enables us to walk in ‘the way of peace’, through faith in the loving mercy of the God who ‘so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son’.In spite of everything the light still shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. Revd Rosemary
