{"id":3676,"date":"2018-05-20T22:54:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T13:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somers-harris.com\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2018-05-21T07:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T22:38:57","slug":"harry-mehgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.somers-harris.com\/2018\/05\/20\/harry-mehgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry & Meghan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Father who is in heaven<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yesterday, along with countless others and thanks to \u00a0modern technology, I sat in my front room with one of my favourite people in the whole world (Rhonda Lee Somers-Harris) and watched the wedding of Harry and Meghan. \u00a0There were 600 guests in Saint George’s Church to witness the ceremony.<\/p>\n

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One of the highlights for me was the look of pure joy on the face of this guy, right before Meghan entered Saint George’s Church.<\/p>\n

It was a rather nostalgic moment for me, as when I was younger, I used to be a choirboy in an Anglican church, St. Peter’s Church in Brighton. \u00a0There were the familiar robes, real candles, and of course the power of the liturgy.<\/p>\n

When they recited the Lord\u2019s Prayer, memories flooded back of the times we recited it at assembly in school as well as at every service in St. Peter’s. \u00a0There were 600 people there saying together, \u201cOur Father.\u201d Some were rich, some were famous, some were old, some were young, yet in the presence of God our Father, none of these distinctions mattered; they were all the same. \u00a0From the Queen to the pageboy, all had the same access to Father, Son and Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n

Now, Harry and Meghan are married and carry the title of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, the same county where I was a choirboy \u00a0in the parish church of St. Peter’s in Brighton.<\/p>\n

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I am so grateful for the technology that enabled me to watch this historic event and feel one with so many others who pray to \u201cOur Father\u201d. However, I glanced up from typing this and quickly noticed that this same technology that had just last night enabled me to feel one with so many different people, can so easily trap us into our own little insular world and prevent us from moving on from \u201cOur Father\u201d to seeing the fulfilment of \u201cYour Kingdom Come\u201d.<\/p>\n

As Michael Curry shared at the wedding, there is power in Love. \u00a0I pray that everyone who reads this and acknowledges God as their Father, will take time every day to step out of our technological bubbles and share the power of love to the people around them and see lives changed and transformed as more and more we seek and see His Kingdom come.<\/p>\n

Hallowed be your name;<\/p>\n

your kingdom come;<\/p>\n

your will be done<\/p>\n

on earth as it is in heaven.<\/p>\n

Give us this day our daily bread.<\/p>\n

And forgive us our sins<\/p>\n

as we forgive those that sin against us.<\/p>\n

Lead us not into temptation,<\/p>\n

but deliver us from evil.<\/p>\n

For yours is the kingdom,<\/p>\n

the power, and the glory<\/p>\n

for ever and ever.<\/p>\n

Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Father who is in heaven Yesterday, along with countless others and thanks to \u00a0modern technology, I sat in my front room with one of my favourite people in the whole world (Rhonda Lee Somers-Harris) and watched the wedding of Harry and Meghan. \u00a0There were 600 guests in Saint George’s Church to witness the ceremony. … Continue reading “Harry & Meghan”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nRea-Xi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3688,"url":"http:\/\/www.somers-harris.com\/2018\/05\/20\/%e6%9d%b1%e5%8c%97-tohoku\/","url_meta":{"origin":3676,"position":0},"title":"\u6771\u5317 Tohoku","date":"May 20, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This car number plate is from the city of Sendai in the Tohoku region of Japan. \u00a0While Sendai is not the capital of the Tohoku region, it is the biggest city there. \u00a0I will be a part of the final vision trip to \u6771\u5317 before we send out our long\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.somers-harris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1676C33D-7317-4A06-A811-7B066B8A0B5C.jpeg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3795,"url":"http:\/\/www.somers-harris.com\/2018\/06\/01\/mary-elizabeth-the-rest-of-the-story\/","url_meta":{"origin":3676,"position":1},"title":"Mary Elizabeth - the rest of the story","date":"June 1, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, as is my custom, I was praying through my prayer app \u00a0and one of my subscriptions is to the collect of the day from the Anglican Church. \u00a0It was titled \u201cThe visit of the blessed virgin Mary to Elizabeth\u201d, telling \u00a0of the Bible story that I mentioned in my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Family Stuff"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3737,"url":"http:\/\/www.somers-harris.com\/2018\/05\/27\/tohoku-vision-trip-day-3-post-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":3676,"position":2},"title":"Tohoku Vision Trip Day 3 Post 2","date":"May 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The afternoon began with the long awaited visit to the onsen. \u00a0For the guys that meant Gary, David and me. 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