Tonight I received an email from Maggi Dawn at Cambridge University in the UK. Maggi wrote saying:
My College community prayed for you all last night. I preached on Psalm 137 as a Psalm of lament in loss. We prayed using Margaret Rizza's words:
In the homeless and the hungry,
in the broken and the lonely,
in the grieving of your people,
Creator God, you are there.
in the broken and the lonely,
in the grieving of your people,
Creator God, you are there.
In the tears and in the heartache,
in the Love through which we serve you,
in the anguish of the dying,
Creator God, you are there.
In our hearts and in our thinking,
in the longing and the dreaming,
in the yearning of our heartbeat,
Creator God, you are there.
in the Love through which we serve you,
in the anguish of the dying,
Creator God, you are there.
In our hearts and in our thinking,
in the longing and the dreaming,
in the yearning of our heartbeat,
Creator God, you are there.
In the love for one another,
in the sharing of our being
in receiving and forgiving,
Creator God, you are there.
in the sharing of our being
in receiving and forgiving,
Creator God, you are there.
We'll continue to pray for you and for Christchurch.
Best wishes, Maggi Dawn
And Maggi’s message is not the only one I received today from concerned and praying people around the world. I also received messages from Pennsylvania in the United States, Wollongong in Australia and over the weekend messages from London, Denmark, Norway and central Asia. Many many people are praying for Christchurch and the people of our church and sending their support and care. It is quite heartening the mix of all we are going through to know we are not alone.
