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Good Morning

Put your money where your mouth is, practise what you preach, actions speak louder than words and that motto of the suffragette movement ‘Deeds not words’.Ìý Frequently people of faith are accused of being good as saying all the right things but never putting those words into action. Hypocritically suggesting the best way to live and then never translating their faith into actually doing something. One woman of faith who talked the talk and walked the walk is remembered today in the Church of England’s calendar, Norfolk’s own Edith Cavell. A first world war nurse who worked on the battlefield with allies and enemies, providing physical healing and emotional comfort to injured and dying soldiers in their most desperate hours and facilitating escapes. Executed by enemy forces in the hours before her death Edith received a visit from a priest and told him ‘Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.’ We are not all called upon to be a Cavell but to put our good intentions into actions is in itself a small act of bravery.

God of words and deeds, help us to be people of action, working together for the common good, speaking words of love in the world and showing that same love with acts of service. Help us too to have the grace to accept the acts of love of others.
Amen

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