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A thought and prayer for today

Today’s thought is from William Barclay

Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. William Barclay

Lord of the feast,
 you have prepared a table before all peoples 
and poured out life with such abundance
 that death cannot claim the triumph over your universe.
 Call us again to your banquet where we may receive your holy food,
 and strengthened by what is honourable, just, and pure, 
be transformed into a people of righteousness and peace. Amen.