Greetings to all women - especially those from Papua New Guinea. I have enjoyed the Women's World Day of Prayer service twice today and would like to thank all those involved in preparing and leading it.
I always enjoy these services - partly because you can hear the voices of those who have prepared them coming over so clearly - partly because they are led by a large number of women, many of whom don't lead worship at any other time - despite having a great many of the appropriate gifts - I hope that they were listening to today's reading from Romans 12 - and partly because I could simply sit and receive.
Once again the final hymn was 'The day thou gavest'. There is something about the continuity round the world and across the generations that is reflected in this hymn that speaks especially of the connectedness of women responding almost to the eternalness & omnipresence of God. In fact you could say responding to the 'omni'ness of God. God's image is so much clearer in women in relationship than in woman.
Jacky
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Thanks for this post Jacky about the World Day of Prayer. At its best the Day really is about women's voices coming through.
One of the things I also like about it is the freshness of the liturgies - comapred say to the week of prayer for Christian Unity services which do tend to be more institutional
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