Prayer for Today – May 19

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 19, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

O Lord, you are in the midst of us and we are called by your name. We lean in closely to catch a glimpse of you in our midst. Do you come as the one with the rolling cart that holds all his soiled belongings in one heap? Do you appear as the one with the vacant stare peering from the nursing home window? Are you the hungry one in the grocery line clutching a few cans of beans and a SNAP food card? You wear many faces, O Holy One, so sharpen our vision, we pray, lest we fail to offer you help and homage along the way.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

O Living Voice, since our earliest days, we have been taught that we are called by your name that that you even wooed us in our infancy. As you created us to mature in body, your desire is that we also grow in wisdom and set aside our childish notions. Forgive us, we pray, when we hang onto foolish dreams of yesterday. We carry around old suitcases filled with grudges, youthful errors, blatant blunders, terrible mistakes, and thoughts of what-might-have-been. If we are truly called by your name of Love, help us grow in our forgiveness of others and indeed ourselves. For you call us forward, and those whom you call, you will strengthen and sustain.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

O One Close By, you hear each utterance of gratitude that comes from our hearts and you also are aware of everything that causes us pain and anxiety. Thank you, Good Lord, for knowing us through and through, and for embracing us when we need to feel your closeness. In your own way, touch each in our church family, and especially these who offer their prayers this day:

  • Thankful for prayers: young boy of 8 with leukemia now allowed to leave St. Jude and return to his family for chemo treatments
  • Someone is thankful that she will have a temporary job to help with finances
  • Grateful for prayers: medical tests reflected no cause for concern
  • One offers praises that she is able to recapture part of her normal income
  • Family grateful for a week of respite following a nephew’s funeral
  • Pray for a member bearing ongoing pain following treatments, for healing
  • Increased strength & patience for a father recovering from serious surgeries
  • Prayers for a member who continues her move to a new home today
  • Continued prayers for those who are grieving loss of loved ones
  • Couple tragically injured in a criminal assault – both critical at Vanderbilt Hospital
  • Easing of pain for someone recovering from an accident
  • A member who steadfastly continues his lengthy cancer treatments
  • Elderly member hospitalized, that he will be released soon to return home

For the tender care with which you treat our innermost selves, we remain grateful.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Guide us, O God, by your Holy Spirit, that all our prayers and all our lives may reflect our belief in and our will to serve only you, through Christ our Lord, who taught us to pray:

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. 

 

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Prayer for Today – May 18

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 18, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

O Music of the World, eras come and eras go and still you play on. All creation joins daily in one grand symphony of grace, keeping time with your ever-present holiness. It is our choice whether or not we join in your composition, for you are the One who never coerces, but only invites. Thank you for your kindest invitation, Dear Lord. Grant that we might listen closely, that we might join in at just the right time.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

O Song of the Universe, some days, we are eager to lift our voices with all creatures who chant your praise. When we do, we sing with you so easily. At times, distracted by misfortune or despondency, our voices are strident and are always in a mournful key. Nudge us, we pray, when we forget to practice your praise, when we are out of tune. Your property, O Great Conductor, is always to have mercy, so lead us, as members of your holy choir, to boldly sing your rich major chords of healing and forgiveness.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

O Melody of Life, you carry us through on the comforting notes of your love. Help us remember that your song is never-ending; and because of your merciful movement throughout our days, we bring our personal praises and these prayers:

  • Gratitude: Member offers thanks for worship music that lifts his soul to heaven
  • Thanksgiving: a friend with Covid-19 says his fears have eased
  • Three families celebrate the high school graduation of their son & daughters
  • Gratitude for all healthcare workers, first responders, and all who keep us safe
  • A mother seeks understanding from her children
  • A widow who moves to another home on Monday, that all goes smoothly
  • Prayers for beloved father in hospice in Cookeville; courage for his family
  • All unemployed, that doors may open for them to return to work
  • One in the middle of a divorce, for direction, wisdom, & healing of a broken heart
  • Our members who mourn loved ones who have died in recent days
  • A friend who lost her job this week
  • Continued healing of member recovering from hip surgery
  • A dear friend who suffered a fall, for decrease of pain and for patience

Lord of the Dance, it was your servant David who danced in celebration of your faithfulness and you were pleased. And we know that all the seasons keep time with your divine rhythm. Soon this period of aloneness will end, and our fear of taking the next step will be no more. For when our separateness is over, we will join hands and sway together as family, united in the waltz of thanksgiving:

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. 

 

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Prayer for Today – May 17

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 17, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

Who are you, O Lord, and who are we? This ageless question often makes its home in our thoughts. Search as we may, the full answer always eludes us. You are the one who desires to be sought, but you are always ahead of us, just out of reach. Perhaps it is enough to know you as the gravity which holds all creation together. And by your mystifying design, we are each caught up in your luminous web of grace. Hold us here forever, we pray, hold us here forever.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

O Impenetrable One, we can feel your love for us in so many ways, but how can we return the depth of your caring, your forgiveness, your hope, your restoration? Scripture teaches us to love you with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind. We have long endeavored to be true to this teaching, but we wonder if we will reach this level of love in our lifetimes? Perhaps you think it sufficient that we are trying. May this be so. But if we miss the mark in this earthly realm, please grant that we might attain it when we reside in your everlasting kingdom.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

God of the Open Heart, you are open to listening to us, whether we are in want or prosperity. As this is yet another of your astonishing gifts, we know you will receive, with your characteristic care, these situations offered by members of our church family:

  • Gratitude: Son & daughter-in-law are just out of quarantine, reunited with family
  • Family celebrating the birth of a healthy baby girl born on May 12
  • Thanksgiving for a nephew’s engagement announced yesterday
  • Member is thankful for the beauty of her wedding Saturday
  • Family grateful for prayers for an at-risk son — born whole & healthy Friday
  • Please pray for dear friend, alone in PA, suffering from Covid-19, for his healing, easing of his fear and loneliness
  • Prayers for beloved father in hospice are in Cookeville; courage for his family
  • Continued safety for all healthcare workers & first responders
  • A family in need of healing & reconciliation
  • Faithful member grieving her father’s death; for peace to surround family
  • Family in stress, strength to deal with multiple needs of adult children
  • A friend who lost her job this week; lift up all unemployed & underemployed

Through the presence of the Holy Spirit, grant that we may grow in our awe and love of you. And although you are veiled from our eyes, we know we are firmly held in your web of grace. We place all these prayers and petitions this day at the door of your heart. In your own time and in your own way, continue to work in us and through us:

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. 

 

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Prayer for Today – May 16

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 16, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

“Though the fig tree does not blossom, and no fruit is on the vines, though the produce of the olive fails and the fields yield no food; though the flock is cut off from the fold and there is no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will exult in the God of my salvation.”

 

So spoke the ancient prophet, O Lord, and how strong is his testament of faith! Bury the power of Habakkuk’s words deep in the soil of our spirits, we pray, that despite the present time of drought, our soul vines will remain green and full of life potential. And when your time of renewal draws near, our stems will push away the parched earth and will rise steadily upward to sing green-grace praises to you,

O God of our salvation!

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

O Renewing One, we know that fear lurks in the shadows, waiting to capture us unaware; and we know that we will sometimes fall prey to the dark clouds overhead, thinking they will hover forever. But in your grace, you will sift all those negative thoughts the shadows bring and will replace them with life-giving hope.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Receive now, Loving Guide, these blessings and concerns which are placed in your open hands this day. We ever feel you working in our lives:

  • Gratitude: a loving wife was discharged from the hospital yesterday
  • Thankful that a dear friend will not have to have surgery after a fall
  • A blissful couple celebrate the wedding vows they will take this day
  • Grateful for prayers: executive under duress received promising news Friday
  • Prayers appreciated; an at-risk baby was born last night – healthy and happy
  • Pray for strength for a member as she delivers a eulogy for her sister today
  • Continued safety for all healthcare workers and first responders
  • All who are mourning loved ones – may peace and comfort lift them up
  • An aging mother in hospice; strength for loving family who care for her
  • Faithful member grieving her father’s death; for peace to surround family
  • A friend who lost her job this week; lift up all unemployed and underemployed
  • Young couple undergoing stress in their relationship
  • Loved ones who are lonely, isolated at home or nursing facilities

With all the distractions that turn our attention elsewhere, we pray we would receive wisdom and strength to remain focused on you, O Divine One, for you are the key to our intense longings and the answer to every prayer. And in your mercy, accept this all-encompassing prayer our Savior taught us:

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. 

 

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Prayer for Today – May 15

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 15, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

O Divine One, we pray to remember from whence we come. We have memories of our glorious church home, with its grand walls of stone and vaulted ceilings, the faith stories revealed in brilliant stained glass, and tower bells singing out the hours of our lives. We recall kneeling at the altar to receive the sacraments as choir and organ lifted our souls to celestial realms. Yes, we miss these wonders; yet all exist to remind us that there is something divine, not only in our structure; but also a spark of divinity has been placed in each of us. So in our weeks away from our church, we really carry our church within us – in our very hearts.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

God of Renewal, we pray for ears to hear and eyes to see that which is real. In a time of manufactured reality and an onslaught of distractions, we are in danger of wasting our days in hand-wringing, fruitless thinking, and misspent energy. Help us to absorb the incredible truth that we are called to be a part of something bigger than ourselves. This calling is difficult, it is true, particularly in this frightening interval. But through your Holy Spirit, we shall receive sufficient vision, strength, and power to discern those purposes that are real and to claim them as our own.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Accept, we pray, these our private confessions this day . . .  For these ways in which we have disappointed you and also ourselves, we seek forgiveness. Mend us, mold us, and move us to take that fresh path that you are revealing to us. And also receive, Listening Lord, these earnest petitions that come from your beloved children at Church Street:

  • Gratitude: a daughter’s Covid-19 test was negative
  • Thankful for a nephew’s high school graduation
  • A couple celebrate their recent wedding engagement
  • Grateful for prayers: member’s surgery went well and she hopes to go home today
  • Continued safety for all healthcare workers and first responders
  • An aging mother in hospice care; strength for family caring for her at home
  • Pray for a safe delivery of a baby today, for mother, family, physician
  • Please pray for strength and wisdom for an executive involved in a situation of great magnitude in her workplace today
  • Offer prayers for the unemployed and a dear friend who lost her job this week
  • Prayers for patience and strength for a father during his lengthy recovery
  • That an effective vaccine for Covid-19 is discovered and made available
  • Young married couple under stress with heavy work & school schedules
  • Loved ones who are lonely, isolated at home or nursing facilities
  • Healing of a friend who fell & broke her jaw & shoulder, for her recovery

For the way you bring grace out of hardship, healing out of sickness, hope out of despair, and life out of death, we are humbled but ever grateful.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Although we cannot fully grasp the work you are doing within us, we know that we are being shaped for your worthy purposes. Continue that work, O Creating God, and we shall continue to offer our praise and also this prayer taught us long ago by your Son, that Greatest Teacher:

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. 

 

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Prayer for Today – May 14

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 14, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

When morning gilds the skies, my heart awaking cries:

May Jesus Christ be praised!

Luminous and Pure is your candle that lights our way to hope. Though our road is littered with broken promises, shattered dreams, painful regrets, and half-truths, you clear a promising path that leads to a new tomorrow. Lift your candle high, so we do not lose sight of the way to wholeness.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

The night becomes as day when from the heart we say:

May Jesus Christ be praised!

Sometimes we are blinded by your brightness, O Flame of Love. We fear turning in your direction as we are weighed down with guilt; we wear our wrongs as a badge of our unworthiness. How odd you must find it when you see us clutching old sins, when you yourself forgot them long ago. Lift your candle high, so our inward vision might become as clear as yours.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

The powers of darkness fear when this sweet chant they hear:

May Jesus Christ be praised!

Beam of Grace, we ask that you cast your light in the direction of those about whom we care most deeply. One by one these dear faces come to mind . . . Their anguish and unrest you know already. Still, hold your candle high this day, that each might catch a ray from your holy flame that would make their eyes shine with trust. That glimmer might be the one thing that helps them stay the course.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

And hear also these joys and petitions offered by members of our Church Street family:

  • Gratitude: a hospital has safely opened & many are returning to work
  • Prayers appreciated! A house closing was completed Wednesday
  • A job interview went smoothly – thankful for prayers
  • Thanksgiving: cancer survivor had her final radiation treatment yesterday
  • Please continue to pray for 2 in our community awaiting test results
  • Prayers for a grieving family who bury their mother today
  • A dear pastor friend, young mother, battling breast cancer
  • Continued prayers for strength for one on a long road to recovery
  • Young married couple under stress with heavy work and school schedules
  • Loved ones who are lonely, isolated at home or nursing facilities
  • Pray for a young daughter awaiting test results for Covid-19
  • Wisdom for opening of public spaces – adherence to protective guidelines

Be this our eternal song through all the ages long:

May Jesus Christ be praised!

Even in the dark, you can kindle a spark of assurance that can last a lifetime.  Small wonder you are called the Light of the World.  It is to you we cling, believing that our small candles might join with yours and ignite a flame of love so broad it would envelope our world.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

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. 

 

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Prayer for Today – May 13

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 13, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

O Endless Good, we remain grateful for your enduring love that neither fades nor falters. For if ever we needed your constancy, we need it in this interval of troubles. We recall Jesus’ words to those fragile souls long ago: “Let not your hearts be troubled…” Quell the apprehension that abides within us most of our waking hours, we pray, for we are unable to overcome it alone.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Love Beyond Measurement, we hear the statistics afresh each day and we are astonished by the escalating loss of health, lives, jobs, industries, institutions so vital to us. We have lost count of grieving families. We long to be out and about, but we fear that as well, for many travel about freely and unprotected, as if the pernicious virus has disappeared altogether. We long to gather in worship in the flesh, but we wonder if we might ever be able to safely assemble and embrace our friends?

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

O Voice of Equanimity, we believe you are ever the voice of calm in the storm and we believe your work for the good will ultimately prevail. We believe, O Lord; but help our unbelief.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

O Wind that Gives Us Life, send your fresh breath of ease to all hurting ones, and particularly upon these brothers and sisters of Church Street who name their concerns this day:

  • Thank you for praying: after many months, an adult son now has employment
  • Gratitude: a member’s hip surgery went smoothly yesterday
  • Thankful for the recent marriage of a son (though family could not attend)
  • Celebrating a $6,000 grant for our preschool program
  • Please pray that a house closing goes through today
  • Offer prayers that an important job interview goes well today
  • Please continue to pray for a member seeking relief from angina
  • Prayers for a grieving family
  • A cousin suffering from pancreatic cancer
  • Easing of anxiety and pain for two pregnant women
  • Loved ones who are lonely, isolated at home or nursing facilities
  • Pray for a young daughter awaiting test results for Covid-19
  • Wisdom for opening of public spaces – adherence to protective guidelines
  • Patience for one awaiting test results, that no problems arise

We are aware that the cares of this human life won’t disappear from this world altogether, but your strength can blend with our strength to lead us to a new road, a new era not yet visible.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

We bring our gratitude today for your acceptance, for your forgiveness, and for your eternal promise to never leave us comfortless. For these reasons we are bold to pray in the name of your Son and our Savior:

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. 

 

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Prayer for Today – May 12

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 12, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

O Timeless One, in an era when it is unfashionable to speak of our faith, may we unapologetically share with others what your grace has meant to us. We often wonder how it is that so many exist without the hope you provide. Our spirits are inextricably bound up with yours, however, so give us the will and the words to speak openly of your everlasting goodness, when the occasion arises, sharing your divine hope with those who believe their situations are irredeemable.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Even though your claim upon us is secure, Enduring One, there are those days when we allow melancholy to creep into our thoughts; and our minds wander to how things used to be, or we forge ahead to plan a future without inconvenience or disruption. But life in this realm is lived in the meantime – in the here and now. May we take to heart the teaching of the apostle who told us to rejoice in all circumstances and to learn how to be content with things as they are.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

We do rejoice that your patience never grows thin and that we might ever express our daily cares to you, no matter how massive or how inconsequential they may seem. For you, O Holy One, are ever ready to receive our petitions and handle them with reverence. So take these special situations that are on the hearts and minds of your people at Church Street, molding them to bring glory to your name:

  • A family celebrates a newborn, a healthy baby boy
  • Gratitude that an ill mother’s health continues to improve
  • The spirits of a man with depression have been lifted of late, prayers appreciated
  • Thankful for prayers: promising news received by a friend with Crohn’s disease
  • Grateful for the life of a treasured mother who died on Saturday
  • Please pray for a husband who has heart tests today – for proper treatment
  • A member undergoing hip surgery today – that all goes smoothly for her
  • Pray for a young daughter awaiting test results for Covid-19
  • Prudence for all who are more active in the community now that businesses are opening; that all might wisely use protective measures
  • Healing for a longtime member who is fighting depression
  • Patience for one awaiting test results, that all might be well
  • Pray for strength and endurance for a daughter, primary caregiver for her father
  • Please pray for a house closing to take place on schedule on Wednesday

Wrap our concerns and thanksgivings in your tenderness, we pray, and cradle us in the warmth of your  love.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

We thank you, Lord, that you do not love us because of our potential; rather, you treasure us just as we are.  This is part of your Divine Mystery which sustains us and compels us to ever praise you and your Son Jesus, who taught us to pray:

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. 

 

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Prayer for Today – May 11

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 11, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

YOU BLESS US

 

For the life beat of our hearts

For your word that faith imparts

O Lord, you bless us.

 

For the beauty of the call

From the Savior of us all

O Lord, you bless us.

 

For your penchant to reclaim

Both the broken and the lame

O Lord, you bless us.

 

For your love does not require

Lists of deeds to be acquired

O Lord, you bless us.

 

For the healing of our pain

For the shackles you unchain

O Lord, you bless us.

 

For your watch-care when we roam

For by grace you call us home

O Lord, you bless us.

 

For eternal life implies

There’s a love that never dies

O Lord you bless us.

 

Amen.

 

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. 

 

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Prayer for Today – May 10

BINDING SOUL AND SOURCE

Daily Prayers of the Church Street family

May 10, 2020

Pastor Jan

 

Mothering God, we are each created in the womb of your love and you have nurtured us to this day. Many were raised in loving households, as you intended, though others of us spent our early lives in homes where bitterness, resentment, and neglect prevailed. Nevertheless, you were with us even then, and in your own way, you used deprivation for our good. As a mother comforts her child, so have you comforted and cared for us throughout the years. And as we pray for mothers everywhere, we also offer gratitude for those women and men who became parents to us at one point or another. Above all, we are grateful that we are treasured members of your very own family, and that you are always waiting at the gate until we arrive safely home.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

Almighty One, in the mystery of tragedy and disaster, we always look to you for an explanation to satisfy our minds and hearts. This prevailing pandemic is no different. Why? is our daily question and it surely reverberates through the heavens. Our grief runs deep, not just for ourselves, but for all whose wounds are too deep to comprehend: the ill and dying, the bereaved and frightened, the depressed and lonely, those anxious for medical results, those who worry about their safety and the safety of loved ones. We entrust all these burdens to your grace. And perhaps the answer to our nagging question is that there is no burden we face that Christ himself did not also endure.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

O Loyal Parent, you recognize our voices whenever we call in the night. Soothe our brow with your hand of love and listen as we whisper the secrets of our hearts . . .

May we open our souls to your grace and be born again through your mercy:

  • Gratitude for a son who recently graduated from law school, blessings as he now studies for the bar exam
  • Thankful: a dear friend (86) has had successful heart surgery and is now home
  • Gratitude: celebrating a family business that is doing well, despite the virus threat
  • Pray for a young daughter who awaits test results for Covid-19
  • A mother with a few months to live, courage for her family who cannot visit
  • That a vaccine for Covid-19 may be discovered & made available soon, that we all might gather again for worship and song
  • Lift up a bereaved family, whose adored mother died yesterday
  • Pray for a faithful servant with angina; wisdom for physicians in his treatment
  • Healing of a father whose emotional issues have resurfaced
  • A longtime member who is fighting depression, for her strength and healing
  • Cherished mother who suffers from cancer, for relief of pain and healing
  • Pray for strength and endurance for a daughter, primary caregiver for her father
  • Two women awaiting results of recent medical tests
  • Restoration of a member who has long suffered from debilitating back pain

Show us, O Lord, those situations where we might join with you in bringing healing comfort to these brothers and sisters; for whatever effort we make, you will perfect it and bring forth a blessing.

Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.    

This Sabbath day, you desire that we create within us a quiet place in which we may set aside our tensions — a place where we recall that our salvation comes in returning and rest. Hold us there, in your peaceful womb of grace, where we hear only the reassuring heartbeat of your Loving Son, who taught us to pray:

Our father who are 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. 

 

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