Prayer Guide
This month we will look at the gift of Grief and Loss. The communities connected with Christian Horizons have experienced much loss over the past years. We pray that as we mourn together, we will also dance and rejoice together in the year to come and in eternity.” We are looking forward to 2022 where we will continue to Grow Together and experience Joy on the Journey.
This prayer guide is included below to print and make available at various locations as an optional resource for employees, people receiving support, families and church partners. If you have any questions about the prayer guide or items to include next month, please contact ministry@christian-horizons.org.
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Reflection
In our previous reflection, we shared our 2022 organizational theme, “Growing Together: Joy on the Journey.” We considered how there are times when we need to search for and choose joy. We look forward to practising choosing joy together in the months ahead. Sometimes, though, joy simply springs up in the most unlikely places. Grief is a landscape where I have seen joy spring to the surface like an unexpected geyser. As I accompany teams and people who use our services while processing grief, diverse and complicated emotions arise. Inevitably, people who are grieving will share a humorous story about or a fond memory of the person who passed. Tears of joy push their way through the sadness.