It is the Women's World Day of Prayer today. Our service has been prepared by the Women of the Cameroons.
That word caused confusion for me as a child, as I got that place muddled up with Macaroons [which in the UK are cakes made with desiccated coconut - not the meringue-y French fancies]
Enough about cakes...
Our theme this year is "Let Everything That Has Breath Praise God"
We always end with the hymn "The Day Thou Gavest, Lord is Ended " and that verse about "the sun that bids us rest, is waking our friends beneath the western sky" - and that reminds me of so many of my blog-friends round the world - Frances, Karin, PomPom, Amazing Grace, Vivien and Sparrow-on-PEI, all 'across the pond' - and ElizabethT in India - and all the European friends - esp. Floss and ElizabethD in France - and Catriona in Scotland and all the others in the UK. [I am hopeless about timezones - I know ElizabethT is ahead and PomPom is behind, but cannot remember by how much!]
It is a very special day for me, and I really feel united with my Christian sisters all round the globe.
This year I have been to two services - the one in my own village, this afternoon, in our parish Church, where I was just a member of the congregation, and then tonight I was the guest speaker at a service in another village.
Both events went well. But I was extremely glad that I had put my bikers thermal underwear on beneath my smart trouser suit!
I do hope you are enjoying a good WWDP too!
Thanks for the thoughts - India is 5 1/2 hours ahead of GMT! I didn't realise it was WWDP yesterday but we did have a great extended prayer time with the dorm girls last night and it was great.
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ReplyDeleteSo blessed that we are all children of our heavenly Father and united in His love - though oceans apart!
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