For your church, which collects the wisdom and lessons of the past, for our understanding and communal sharing of your love in service to others.
DEAR GOD, WITH GRATITUDE FOR YOUR CONSTANT LOVE, WE PRAY
For Peace in the world, that comes from hope in each heart to know your love and pass it to our children’s generation.
Yours is truly the peace that passes our understanding. We long for it always.
DEAR GOD, WITH GRATITUDE FOR YOUR CONSTANT LOVE, WE PRAY
For our President, and the leaders of the world, that they may listen to the followers of your way, in making right decisions for the good in all of your creation.
DEAR GOD, WITH GRATITUDE FOR YOUR CONSTANT LOVE, WE PRAY
For this earth and its abundant bounty, that we may treat your creation with conscious reverence and gratitude. We ask for wisdom in keeping and following your natural order which sustains us.
DEAR GOD, WITH GRATITUDE FOR YOUR CONSTANT LOVE, WE PRAY
For your people and animals, those who suffer, are captives in any way, those who remember and care for them, and those who put themselves in harms way to serve and save others.
DEAR GOD, WITH GRATITUDE FOR YOUR CONSTANT LOVE, WE PRAY
For the mystery of our after life, that you will hold us each in your eternal love, along with those who have passed before us. We live for the comfort of your love.
DEAR GOD, WITH GRATITUDE FOR YOUR CONSTANT LOVE, WE PRAY
For those of us gathered, those we bring in our hearts, those whose needs are known only to you, and those on our parish prayer list …..
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Collect
Dear God, Thank you for bringing us into this time and place, surrounded by your constant love, with opportunity to behold your blessings, and pass them on to others. We sing with the joy of your abundant daily miracles in our lives. We ask for that which is in each heart, for you to heal us and bring us wholly into your radiance. In the name of Jesus, our beloved savior. Amen