Reflection: Sunday 5th October and for the week ahead:

Collect for Trinity 16
Lord, we beseech you mercifully to hear the prayers of your faithful people who call upon you; and grant that they may both perceive and know what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to fulfil them.

Reflection:
This Collect reminds us of the need for prayer to guide our decisions. Knowing that God hears us and cares about us, we pray that He will guide our actions. Of the various possibilities that lie open to us, we have to make a choice, to choose between what is easiest or most appealing and what is right. But that’s not all! Having established what we ought to do we may or may not actually decide to do it. And so we pray for strength, spiritual and physical, to do what we know is right.

Show me your ways, Lord, guide me in your truth and teach me (Psalm 25.4-5)

Revd Rosemary