Explore the reading

Explore together the idea of being ‘restored’. You might watch a YouTube clip of scenes of a British regiment returning from service in Iraq to be restored to their families (see the Further Resources section).

Then make the rest of the psalm your own. Think of your congregational and community circumstances, and mould the psalm to fit your needs and what is going on at the present time: ‘Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like the Clyde down by the docks; may those who sell poppies for Remembrance be blessed with success...’