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Brokenness and Hope in God’s World Loving God, As we pause in this moment, quieten our hearts and still our minds. Help us to listen — to you, to one another, and to the world you love. In the midst of brokenness, open our eyes to signs of hope, and guide our thoughts as we reflect together. Amen. Brokenness and Hope in God’s World Rev Judy Although I had a theme hovering in my heart and mind for today well before Christmas, much of what I have chosen to share in Thoughts to Ponder came more...

Welcome Opening Prayer Dear God, thank you for Jesus’s actions in the world, for His peace, compassion and kindness. Please help us to be close to you in prayer and contemplation. Please show us how to hold you in our hearts throughout the day in every moment. Dear Lord let this new year be a year where peace grasps the world. ‘And they will beat their swords into plows, and their spears into knives for cutting vines. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and they will not learn about...

Welcome Opening Prayer Lord, we come into this place, and into your presence to rest for a while amid the busyness of this Christmas season. So minister to us Lord in these moments of quietness, in our times of sharing, in our meditations, in our thoughts. As we return again to the wonder of the Nativity, the wonder of “The word made Flesh,” fill us again with the joy and the certainty of Christ’s coming into the world. Like Mary, may we Ponder all these things in our hearts. Amen   Janet’s...