Remembrance Sunday, 100 Years On.

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Father of all, remember your holy promise,
and look with love on all your people, living and departed.
On this day we especially ask that you would hold for ever
all who suffered during the First World War,
those who returned scarred by warfare,
those who waited anxiously at home,
and those who returned wounded, and disillusioned;
those who mourned,
and those communities that were diminished and suffered loss.
Remember too those who acted with kindly compassion,
those who bravely risked their own lives for their comrades,
and those who in the aftermath of war,
worked tirelessly for a more peaceful world.

And as you remember them, remember us, O Lord;
grant us peace in our time and a longing for the day
when people of every language, race, and nation
will be brought into the unity of Christ’s kingdom.
This we ask in the name of the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent,
but the hills are eternal. Always there will be the lonely ridge,
the dancing beck, the silent forest;
always there will be the exhilaration of the summits.
     - Alfred Wainwright, The Western Fells

but perhaps not,

Before the mountains were born
or you brought forth the whole world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

: Psalm 90.............................................

Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,
From everlasting Thou art God,
To endless years the same.
                     ~  Isaac Watts