BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE
Prayers for the Church Street Family
February 10, 2021
Rev. Dr. Jan Buxton Wade
As you have etched your signature in holy shades of light and dark across the sky above us, you have engraved your name upon every living part of your creation. Even as you answer to many names, we know you as the One Who Is, the One who will stand with us till time is no more. We praise you that your autograph glows in the stately stretch of the heavens this eventide — a silent signal that you linger close. If we failed to acknowledge you or caused you pain in these hours past, please forgive us. We pray you would never erase that treasured mark of ownership we are honored to wear.
Heart of Truth, the newscasters twist their sirens to their most alarming levels, keeping us anxiously poised for the next catastrophe. It is all we can do to keep from being swept up in despair. Help us instead to tune in to those voices that share stories of your goodness: the sick are being healed, the wounded are being delivered, medications are being distributed, the hungry are being fed, neighbors are helping neighbors, isolated ones are not forgotten, your work is being done.
How comforting to know that your humble disciples still walk the earth, bearing the truth of your benevolence. Thanks be to God!
O Bringer of New Life, even in the bleakness of winter, you invite us to believe in what can still be. Give us courage to move forward, even when we are tired and stressed, when we are restless and confused, even when our challenges seem insurmountable. Receive our private concerns, we pray, that we may know your wisdom, especially in . . . . . . . . . . And as it is your good pleasure to receive our prayers, we offer these on behalf of our Church Street family:
- Seven offer gratitude for virus vaccinations
- Thankful for prayers: A mother’s health is improving
- Gratitude: One’s depression is lifting
- Couple grateful for a vacation
- Member thankful to be released from hospital
- Prayers for a good job opening in the area
- Upholding a family saddened by recent news
- Courage for one with newly diagnosed cancer
- Frail friend with pneumonia
- Close friend given six months to live
- One desires guidance in beginning a friendship
- Upholding two members in cancer treatment
- Comfort for family: Death of father
- Healing: Husband in deep depression
- Strength for family coping with son’s grave emotional problems
- Member recovering from major illness
- Friend suffering physically and emotionally
- Continued healing for heart patient
- Grandson with lymphoma
As we rest tonight, Lord, enlarge our hearts that we might love more deeply and serve with greater intensity in the new day to come. And as we sleep, we place ourselves, all whom we love, and all who bear your love to others into your keeping, for you Lord, only make us dwell in safety.
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
