Prayer from the Occupational Cycle;-

"Prayer"

We thank you God
for skilled textile and clothing workers,
overlockers
and trades unknown outside certain regions.
We rejoice in our beautiful and diverse world,
but world competition in this industry
makes everybody insecure,
from Oldham to Bangladesh.
God help us
to minimise insecurity,
and where it can't be taken away,
help us live with it.

SYWC

"Prayer"

God of love,
every time we
pull on the gloves, put on the hat
to dance the dance,
or to go out into the cold...
...help us remember
the people who made them;-
skilled people,
bored people standing in front of machines,
an old woman with no other income
knitting a pair of yellow gloves for 'mfundisi'.
God, it's your world,
we are all your children.

SYWC