Nick Fawcett (devotional and reflective writer)

This week’s promotional discount is on my 2014 book Complete Collected Intercessions, a compilation of the numerous prayers of intercession I’d written for various books up to and including that year. Normally priced at £24.99, this week, until 13 September, you can purchase it at a 10 per cent discount – a saving of £2.50 – using the code INTERCESSIONS10 when ordering the book from the Kevin Mayhew website. Just type the code into the relevant box at the checkout between the dates given.

Meanwhile, here’s the third of seven extracts I’ll be posting this week from the book, to run alongside this promotion. It’s theme is disaster and tragedy, and how we struggle to make sense of it.

Disaster and tragedy

Almighty God, why do you let people suffer? Why have you created a world in which so many have to endure pain, brokenness, heartache and despair? In your mercy, Lord, hear our cry. We look for answers but find none, strive to make sense of it all, but are left clutching at straws, confused and troubled. In your mercy, Lord, hear our cry. Help us to understand that somehow, in ways we don’t understand, you share with us in whatever we go through; that, though it often may not seem like it, your are moved by our pain, seeking to heal, comfort, support and strengthen. In your mercy, Lord, hear our cry. Enfold all who suffer in your loving arms until that time when we enter your kingdom, and hurt and pain will finally be no more. Amen.