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Dream in the Cathedral
There are two group at Liverpool Cathedral. Zone 2 is an all-age, cafe style worship service each Sunday morning in term time while Deeper meets on the first and third Sunday evening of each month.

Dream in Haydock
a meeting in Haydock usually on the 2nd Sunday of the month

Dream in Ormskirk
a group that usually meets on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month in Ormskirk

L19:Dream
a monthly meeting in Grassendale, usually the last Thursday of the month

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Discussion group, meeting in Liverpool on the third Wednesday of each month

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Lent - Day 18: That Sinking Feeling
Written by Mark   
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 00:00

During Lent, our thoughts often turn to suffering; the suffering of Jesus, ourselves and others. The question of why God allows suffering has lingered long down the centuries, and although we can understand that God - as Jesus - has experienced the very extremes of physical and emotional human pain, it can still knock us for six when bad things happen to good people.

Unjust suffering frequently pops up in the Bible. I was reading in The Message the other day about the prophet Jeremiah who, simply for saying what he thought was right, was attacked by his contemporaries, thrown deep down into a cistern filled with mud, and left to sink (click here to read the story).

Have you ever felt trapped like Jeremiah? Far from the surface and sinking? Imagine yourself in his place. If you were Jeremiah, what would you pray?

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# Lucy 2010-03-09 09:49
I have felt trapped in cycles of feeling a certain way, of being unwell and always behaving the same way and being disappointed with myself.
If I were Jeremiah I would pray for release and safety from my captors, but ultimately I expect Jeremiah prayed for God's will to be done - that in itself is one of the scariest prayers...
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# Rob 2010-03-09 10:46
This made me think of Yesterday's post. After the devastation of the typhoon a couple of years ago comes an earthquake that brings a whole country to it's knees.
If I was in a place of unrelenting pain and suffering and was called to a prayer meeting, I wonder what my response would be?
Would I be busy rebuilding the old foundations, or be open to build new ones?
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