Prayer:
We thank you that you have given us the opportunity to be in relationships of all different shapes and sizes. We thank you, that regardless of our relationship status you chose us to love and have intimacy with. We pray for those for whom singleness feels like a battle, a daily challenge they are facing, bring them peace and your love to guide them. For those who have been separated from their loved ones we pray for your hand to be with them and to show them they are never truly alone.
We apologise for when we as a church get it wrong and we ask that as a church family all would feel included and loved.
Thank you that our identity is founded in you.
Amen
Questions:
How as a single person can you apply this idea of the gift Paul was talking about?
Where do we seek our intimacy and love from?
How can those of us who are married or in relationships seek to include singletons into our families and lives?
Where, as a church family, do we fail those who are single?
How might we challenge the fairytale idea of relationships we so often see in society?