Weekly Prayers for the Church Street Family
Week of March 15, 2022
Rev. Jan Buxton Wade
Searching God, we praise you for always seeking those who are stumbling by the wayside, knowing full well that, most often, we are the very ones who have misread the road signs pointing homeward. Thank you for retracing your steps, for pushing your way through the brambles to find us and catch us before we perished among the briars.
O Wounded One, because we have been lost and broken ourselves, you implant compassion within our bones, giving us the boldness to become advocates for the voiceless and the powerless, for the weary and heartbroken, for the suffering and the lost. We recall those words you uttered so long ago, the ones that still play on in our hearts: “Those to whom much is given, much is required.” Grant that we might link arms more tightly with the poor and the underserved in our community, opening the same doors for them that, in your mercy, have been opened for us.
Shelter us beneath your wings these somber days, we pray, especially when our endurance grows thin and our knees become weak. And there, in that safe haven, may our strength be replenished and our vision made keen. Then, we will never lose sight of the One who knows us, who loves us, who believes in us. And assured of that love that never fails, we lift up these situations most recently expressed by those closest to us – members of our own church family:
- Praises for prayers and God’s grace: Healthy grandson born March 11
- Thanksgiving for faithful leadership of our Covid Task Force
- Gratitude for courage that sustained a family during memorial gathering
- Family appreciates prayers: Adult son healing from major heart surgery
- Grateful for nations bound together to suppress evil at work in Ukraine
- Three families offer thanks for safe and memorable vacations with children
- Clergy thankful for all who assisted bereaved family during a funeral
- Thanksgiving for an answered prayer at workplace
- Mercy for suffering people of Ukraine – the displaced, the bereaved, the frightened, the wounded, and all in harm’s way
- Wisdom for world leaders in ending destruction in Eastern Europe
- Prayers that a sister may be strong enough to carry her baby to full term
- Easing a mother’s anxiety as she faces death and her daughter/caregiver
- Continued prayers for healing for a hospitalized member
- Healing for a longtime friend, wisdom for her physicians
- Prayers for success a work team’s mission on March 18
- Wisdom and integrity for leaders of our nation
- Planting of hope for two young couples deeply desiring children
- Continued prayers for families mourning the deaths of loved ones
- Cherished mother who is enduring harsh chemotherapy
- Pray for a dear friend whose long-term partner has abandoned him
- Healing prayers for special cousin who is very ill with cancer
- Prayers that ill friend will have a blood transplant on Friday
- Beloved cousin in treatment for ovarian cancer
- A professional man asks for prayers this week
- Prayers for successful job interview for young professional
- Hope for young friend with metastatic cancer
Our Way, Our Truth, and Our Life, receive these most earnest prayers, and also those unspoken ones we carry within our hearts, for we place our trust always in your unfailing love:
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.
