Scripture and Reflection: Sunday 6th November and for the week ahead:

Scripture:

'Wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace'. (James. 3.17-18)

Reflection:

The world is not short of examples of unwisdom – folly, stupidity, obstinacy, extremism… But as we think of those folk we love and admire, then we home in on the sort of wisdom James writes about ‘full of mercy and good fruits’. This week’s Collect is a prayer for more wisdom in the world:

Almighty Father, whose will is to restore all things
in your beloved Son, the King of all:
govern the hearts and minds of those in authority,
and bring the families of the nations, divided and torn apart by the ravages of sin,
to be subject to his just and gentle rule;
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

David Harmsworth