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

Friday

Good morning on this Armistice Day. This morning we prepare to fall silent at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month to remember before God those who have given their lives that we all might live in peace and freedom. Every Remembrance Season we look back not just to the First World War but also to conflicts near and far, both in history and geography, many of them concluded and lost to the mists of time but many still going on and some having lasting consequences, both individually and geopolitically.

We know, therefore, all too well that war rages on around us today. In Matthew 24 Jesus reminds his friends to keep their eyes on Him and not to see the tumult around them as portents of impending disaster necessarily. That said, we know that the real life and real world impact of war continues to be catastrophic. The world is in uproar all around and many, many people, are at huge risk. I can wash my hands like Pilate as it stays, mostly, away from my door, or I can look to the one who is Prince in a Kingdom of Peace and asks us to help it grow with him. Words, prayers, and action, altogether, through these I believe I can make memories which with God鈥檚 help bring healing and lasting peace to others. I鈥檝e become good at asking for help but I also learned a good while back that sometimes asking for help leads me to be the one being sent to bring that assistance to others.

Father, we remember with gratitude the sacrifice of many for our freedom today. We pray for peace around the world wherever it is lacking.

Amen.