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Weekly Devotional and Prayer requests from FUM

February 5-11, 2010

Drop thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
Thy beauty of Thy peace.

Breathe through the hearts of our desire
Thy coolness and Thy balm;
Let sense be numb, let flesh retire;
Speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire,
O still, small voice of calm!

—John Greenleaf Whittier, from “The Brewing of Soma”

• Pray for safe travels for Sylvia Graves as she returns home from Kenya this weekend and for Joyce Ajlouny as she travels from Ramallah to California to speak at First Friends Whittier and then on to New York to continue her deputation travels.
• Pray for the General Board sessions of Friends United Meeting that meet next weekend (February 11-13) at Powell House in New York, that they may be led by the Spirit and be of one mind.
• Prayers are welcome for a successful handover of the Lindi Friends School in Nairobi, Kenya, today (February 5) to the Nairobi Yearly Meeting. May Nairobi Yearly Meeting provide good leadership and support to the teachers and board of Lindi School and may the children continue to learn and find opportunities to continue their education in a secondary school.
• Praises for a joyous inauguration of the renovated sports field and new classrooms building at Ramallah Friends School on Tuesday, February 2. More information.
• Praise God for the wonderful dedication celebration of the new chapel at Lugulu Hospital, built mostly with donations from the hospital staff. Thank God for the healing ministry of Lugulu Hospital, and for the profound commitment of the hospital staff to preaching the word of Jesus Christ with the power to heal the sick in body, mind and spirit.
• As the winter Olympics open in Vancouver, pray for greater public understanding and action on concerns raised by local indigenous peoples about the denial of their land rights and damage to the environment. (Prayers for Peacemakers, January 27, 2010)
• Please pray for New England Friend Susannah McCandless who has received a bone marrow transplant last Friday for a rare form of leukemia (CMML) which is the only possible cure for her medical condition. Susannah is a lively talented young woman who received the diagnosis of leukemia in August but was able to complete a semester of teaching "geography" at Mt. Holyoke College, near Amherst, before entering the hospital. Friends throughout New England and around the world are holding Susannah, her family and the medical staff in the Light during this special period where she waits for the transplanted cells to engraft and endures many difficult symptoms.