Have you seen the news?

The French Bank Soceite General lost 4.9bn Euros.  The courts have found trader Jerome Kerviel guilty but it would take him 180,000 years to repay the dept if he devoted his entire current salary to the task.

God has paid the price for mankind’s sin, how long would it take to repay this debt?

Lord help us to re-imagine your world so we present ourselves as a living sacrifice – Holy acceptable to you.

We have been captivated by work to rescue of the 33 Chiliean miners.  We have perhaps forgotten the thousands who die every week of hunger, preventable diseases and violence; the thousands who live under the threat of violence, the millions who have been displaced.

Lord help us to re-imagine your world so we plead for the fatherless and widows

We view the commonwealth games with interest.  We heard that some of the accommodation was not up to standard.  “Nobody would want to live in that sqallor” said one spokesman forgetting that many 100s of millions of inhabitants of India would willingly trade their slums for what we regard as sub-standard.

Lord help us to re-imagine your world so we remember that what we do for the least our brethren we do it for you.

We hear of funding made available for treatment of to help prevent the isolation of dementia.  Yet millions in our country are lonely, without hope and desperate.

Lord help us to re-imagine your world so we spend time not just with our friends but include those on the edge of society.