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 sixth of seven extracts I’ll be posting this week from the book, to run alongside this promotion, this one focusing on the environment and our responsibilities towards it:
Eternal God,
thank you for the place you have given humankind in creation,
fashioning us in your image
and giving us the ability to shape and control our environment.
Save us, though, from valuing ourselves too much
and the rest of creation too little;
from failing to treat our environment with the care and respect you expect.
Through honouring your creation,
may we also honour you.
Forgive the wanton destruction of habitats
and mindless slaughter of endangered species for commercial gain;
the putting of human interests before all others.
Through honouring your creation,
may we also honour you.
Forgive the way humankind has impoverished our countryside,
our world
and our lives
through our failure to steward this planet’s resources as wisely as we should.
Through honouring your creation,
may we also honour you.
Teach us to recognise the beauty, wonder and diversity of the natural world
and to fulfil our responsibilities towards it,
understanding that it is not ours to use and abuse at will
but is held in trust for future generations to enjoy in turn.
Through honouring your creation,
may we also honour you.
Amen.