JUNE PRAYER PAGE ✤ We pray for our country as we slowly proceed to come out of COVID restrictions. We thank God for the very effective and amazing vaccination programme, for all the NHS workers and volunteers who have made this happen, for the scientists and epidemiologists who guide our way forwards, and we ask God for wisdom as we negotiate the next few weeks, together. ✤ We pray that we can deal with the so-called Indian variant, so as not to disrupt the way ahead. ✤ We pray for countries, such as India, where the pandemic is raging, asking that those in power would always ensure protection for their populations as their top priority. We pray, worldwide, for the production of vaccines, and for their use, and ask that the richer countries would ensure that the whole world is protected. ✤ We ask that in our society, we would always strive for justice and equality for all, and we ask God would remove the hatred from the hearts of some that is poisoning our national life and discourse. Help us all to see intolerance, racism and antisemitism as evils to be eradicated. ✤ We remember all whose treatment for non-COVID medical treatment has been delayed on account of the pandemic. We pray too, for all in care homes, whose lives have been blighted for the last 15 months through not being able to see their loved ones, for all the families who love them, and for the staff, who have often gone, “above and beyond,” in caring for them. ✤ We thank God, too, for all the generosity, love and care that many people have shown for others during this most difficult time in our national lives. 7
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