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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Haydon Spenceley, Christian musician and worship leader.

Wednesday

Good morning, Faith is built on memory. Whether good, bad, full of elation, challenge or anything else. Sometimes memory is reliable, sometimes it isn鈥檛, but it鈥檚 both important to remember why we have faith in something in the first place, which could have been long ago, and also important to have recent reasons for faith to be maintained. I鈥檝e been in Church all of my life, baptised on day two as I was thought to perhaps be not long for this world. Faith in God only became real to me during my young adulthood and has shifted and sifted around more than a few times since, but I find myself regularly turning to the question of what happens to God鈥檚 faith in me.

If God is beyond time, as we鈥檙e told, then it isn鈥檛 just the case that what I鈥檝e done is known, but also that what鈥檚 to come will come as no surprise to God either. This might put me at ease, or it might scare me a great deal, sometimes both on the same day, but I鈥檓 finding comfort in the idea that whereas my faith story is my own, life is about more than just my story. We have stories that knit together, sometimes come apart at the seams, but which by means wonderfully beyond my understanding are held by a love which is greater than I can imagine. What a gift. That said, I hope today鈥檚 memories made will go in pile which are looked back on fondly with time.

Father, thank you for the gift of faith. Help our faith in you to grow today and help us to look back on today as a day where we knew and shared life-giving love.

Amen.