Cookies? What cookies?

Later on today we will be off to pick up some shopping. Our first choice would have been to have had home delivery but as that will not now be possible until sometime in the distant future we opted for "click and collect".  So there we are, having logged on to our supermarket of choice, selected a morning pick up slot and filled our basket with what we need, now at the checkout. Credit card details entered and the submit button pressed. Before us is an error message. So we try again. Three tries later and still no luck.  We phone the help line. Two hours later we get through and are told it is to do with our cookies. But we haven't bought any cookies we declare. No it's the cookies on the computer, they are interfering with things. So we are shown how to clear the cookies and Bob's your Uncle success. Unfortunately it has taken so long that we have lost our morning pick up slot, fortunately there is one in the afternoon, phew!

In the Lord's Prayer we say "give us this day our daily bread". There can be a range of interpretations of this but I do believe among them is asking God to provide for our needs today. There are many working very hard to make sure we all have enough "daily bread". That includes  the person on the other end of the supermarket help line, obviously really busy, those who produce and distribute food as well as those who sell it. Perhaps every now and then it does no harm to pause and give thanks for them and ask God's protection over them.

In John 6:35  Jesus says :

“I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."

We have the assurance that in Jesus we will also be fed in another way not just for today but in the future too. As  Jesus goes on to say in vrs 40:

"For it is my Father’s will that all who see his Son and believe in him should have eternal life.” 

This is also something to give thanks for, especially in times like we face today.

Dear God

We thank you for all those 
who work so hard to bring 

No cookies here!!

food to our tables.

We pray that when shopping 
people will not be greedy 
and will respect the staff who serve them.

We pray for your protection
over all who have to visit or 
work in shops today.

Loving God we thank you that
Jesus is the bread of life.
May we feed on this truth today and 
in the time ahead.

In his name we ask it.

Amen