Hymn suggestions for Sunday 21 July 2024

Be to us, O God, our love and our hope; our thoughts flowing from you, our life being in you and our breathing taken with you; for Jesus Christ’s sake. Amen. 

John Cassian (c. 360-435)

I wonder…
Why you, Lord, choose to hide your treasures and to invite us to join in the divine ‘hide and seek’?
Why you, Jesus, choose darkness as the place where the richness of your light shines most strongly, most resolutely?
Why you, Spirit, choose to summon us by name – speaking into our lives with such intimacy and love?

Perhaps, Three-in-One,
you delight to find us seeking;
you enjoy the powerful impact of even the smallest of lights, piercing the deepest darkness;
you intend for us to know your voice, follow your promptings and to bear witness to your name.

Thank you for revealing your hiddenness, illuminating our darkness, and enabling us to know how much you have treasured us. Amen.

Philip Gough, District Chair, Lancashire District