Dearest Lord, we pray for your world, that, hearing your call, we might lose the bonds of injustice and let the oppressed go free, so that your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up quickly.

Dear Lord, we pray.

Dearest Lord, we pray for your church, that, hearing your call, we might break bread with the hungry, bring the homeless into our houses, and, seeing the naked, cover them, so that your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up quickly.

Dear Lord, we pray.

Dearest Lord, we pray for our nation, that hearing your call, we might be a city on the hill, lighting the way against injustice and oppression, hunger and homelessness, so that your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up quickly.

Dear Lord, we pray.

Dearest Lord, we pray for the social order, that, hearing your call, we might be the light of mercy and compassion, generous in lending and just in our affairs, so that your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up quickly.

Dear Lord, we pray.

Dearest Lord, we pray for our natural world, that, hearing your call, we might honor mother nature as we do our own mothers, showering her with gratitude and care, so that she may be like a watered garden, in which your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up quickly.

Dear Lord, we pray.

Dearest Lord, we pray for our families and friends and those who have no one to pray for them, that, hearing your call, we might walk with them in their affliction and need, their hunger and loneliness, their sickness and sorrow, so that your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall spring up quickly.

Dear Lord, we pray.