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Call to Prayer
May 1, 2009
Dear Friends,
Sue and Bleign Knox-Davies (now back in South Africa) often send us uplifting or thought provoking items and here are a few verses from a longer poem written by a fifteen year old girl in Ohio. Although our constitution is not the same as that of America we can understand what this girl is saying about the diminishing of publicly acknowledging God and His ways in our land.
Now I sit me down in school,
Where praying is against the rule.
For this great nation under God,
Finds mention of Him very odd.
If Scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow,
Becomes a Federal matter now
We can get our condoms and birth control
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
No word of God must reach this crowd.
It's scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns the school's a mess
So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
Should I be shot; My soul please take! Amen
How do you respond to those words from the heart of a young person in the twenty-first century? Sadness? Righteous Anger? Resignation? Conviction that we do not take opportunities to Pray in public when we could? Relief it is not here or how near is it?
Perhaps it is for us all a call to Prayer and a challenge to Name and Honour God whenever possible before others and to acknowledge that when we cut Him out of our lives or our society we are diminished because of it.
May is a busy month in our Church with the start of “40 Days of Community”, Christian Aid Week, as well as wanting to join in other Christian initiatives including the Week of Prayer in Sevenoaks and Pentecost Festival in London and much more…. Let us use the Gift of these events wisely to help us step out in faith in Jesus‘ Name.
With warmest Christian Greetings
God Bless you,
Kath
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