In Luke’s Gospel, we read that Jesus challenges us to consider the ravens, assuring us that despite the fact that they neither sow nor reap, God still feeds them… The theme for this year’s Prisons Week offers us all the opportunity to reflect upon Christ’s words about God’s abundant and constant love.
Through prayers, films, poems and worship resources, we are led through a week of prayer for Prisons Week.
“Prisons Week has prepared prayer literature to enable the Christian community, through individuals and churches, to pray for the needs of all those affected by prisons: prisoners and their families, victims of crime and their communities, those working in the criminal justice system and the many people who are involved in caring for those affected by crime on the inside and outside of our prisons.”
“Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn;
yet God feeds them.
And how much more valuable you are than birds!
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life.
Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?”
Luke 12:24-26 NIV
(cover photo courtesy of Mark Timberlake at Unsplash)