The Village Sketchbook is open to everyone within our villages. Drawing is a
fantastic way to connect with your local surroundings, keeping a visual diary
whether you are an amateur or professional artist.
For a £5 donation you get an A6 sketchbook, plus on-line access to two 10
minute tutorials from Caz Greenwood with some basic sketching tips, and
ideas on keeping a sketchbook. You and then invited to share your sketchbook
at the ‘Celebrate!’ Exhibition at St Margaret’s on the 25-26th September.
If you would like to take part, please email villagesketchbook@gmail.com or
sign up in the sheet in the porch of St Margaret’s.
Worship
The 10.30am service from St Margaret’s will be uploaded to YouTube as quickly as possible. Our online
services can be accessed here: https:// www.facebook.com/nicol.kinrade.31 or
on our YouTube channel
Mthr Nicol will post her sermons at: https://nicolkinrade.wordpress.com
Prayer for the week: from the Arthur Rank Centre
O God who calls us to live in your presence
and make our home in you,
help us to feel when you are near
and give us courage in the next steps you ask us to take. Amen.
Prayer for the week
Heavenly Father,
we come to you with mixed emotions:
excited at the prospect of time with friends and family,
looking forward to shared meals and shared homes,
anxious about what the future holds.
We come to you celebrating, grieving, joyful and angry
at the life and death we see around us.
We come to you grateful that in all we face
you walk alongside us.
Give us the courage to respond with compassion
to those who are hurting
and to work for justice for those who are oppressed.
In Jesus’ name, amen.
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Prayer for the week: (known to have been a favourite of Fr Scarborough)
Keep us, O Lord, from all Pettiness:
let us be large in thought, word and deed.
Let us be done with all fault-finding
and leave off all self-seeking.
May we put away all pretence and
meet each other face to face,
without self-pity and without prejudice.
May we never be hasty in judgement
and always generous.
Let us take the time for all things and
make us grow calm, serene and gentle.
Teach us to put into action our better impulses, straight forward and unafraid.
And, O Lord God, let us not forget to be kind. Amen.
A Prayer for the week
Give me, Lord,
a stout heart to bear my own burdens,
a tender heart to bear the burdens of others,
and a believing heart to lay all my burdens on you,
for you care for us. Amen.
A prayer of Lesslie Newbigin
A Prayer for the week
My God, do not abandon me
though I have done nothing good in your sight:
but, because you are compassionate,
grant me the power to make a start. Amen
A prayer of St Arsenios (d 449)
Reflection on Prayer from Rev’d Peter Hartley
Some of you may have had this already, but probably not all of you. Prayer is a difficult topic for many of us and this might help!
“Prayer is like watching for the Kingfisher.
All you can do is be there when he is likely to appear and Wait.
Often nothing much happens,
There is space, silence and expectancy.
No visible sign, only the knowledge that he’s been there,
And may come again.
Seeing or not seeing cease to matter,
You have been prepared.
But sometimes, when you’ve almost
Stopped expecting it,
A flash of brightness gives encouragement.”
Ann Lewin, Candles and Kingfishers
A Prayer for the week
Eternal Light, shine in our hearts.
Eternal Goodness, deliver us from evil.
Eternal Power, be our support.
Eternal Wisdom, scatter the darkness of our ignorance.
Eternal Pity, have mercy upon us,
That with all our heart and mind and soul and strength we may seek thy face, and be brought by thine infinite goodness into thy holy presence. Amen.
Alcuin