Week of October 15, 2025
Rev. Amber Loyd
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God of all Grace,
In response to the gentle pulling of your Holy Spirit, we pause to reflect on the days of this week which have already passed and give thanks for your presence in each moment. For the times when we laughed with our children, our friends, and our coworkers, we give thanks. For the challenge of a new project at work, in school, or at home, we give thanks. For the difficult things that test our patience, force us to take stock, or change our perspective, we give thanks.
We are grateful, too, for the small things that often pass unnoticed: clean water, suitable clothing, a warm bed. Many of our neighbors do not have even these, and we ask for the grace to give generously and sacrificially, loving our neighbors as you have loved us. May we be instruments of justice and peace in our communities. We confess that we are often afraid to do so, tempted as we are to clutch tightly to our security because we don’t know what the future holds. Increase our faith, O God. Shape in us a humble spirit.
Jesus, you said that your yoke is easy, but it is a yoke all the same. In our own will we would resist your call to leave father, mother, brother, sister, take your yoke upon ourselves in sacrificial obedience, and live lives that are counter to the culture of our world. But we know that, as much as we’ll allow, the Holy Spirit is at work within us, aligning our will to God’s will. Jesus, may we be as willing to empty ourselves as you were so that we can be molded in your likeness.
We pray for …
- A son who is struggling with addiction.
- A member’s mother who is in hospital; prayers for peace for all of the family.
- A daughter and son-in-law who are having IVF this week. Prayers for success in starting a family!
- A member’s five-year-old great niece who is in hospital with pneumonia.
- A friend receiving chemo; prayers that the drugs work and her liver enzymes get better.
- A friend whose tumor continues to shrink; may healing prevail!
- A son to continue to thrive at school. Praying for his safety and well-being; may he know how much he is loved!
- Friends and family who are struggling and have special needs.
- One who has struggled with schizophrenia for seventeen years
- A brother’s wholeness and healing
- Those who are suffering from addiction
- One praying for peace after two years of struggles with health and work issues; broken relationships. Praying for the healing of Christ.
We continue to pray for …
- A close friend who is also a priest was diagnosed with inoperable stage 4 cancer of the liver. Prayers for his family and peace for him.
- A faithful friend and her husband who was diagnosed with brain cancer.
- A young woman dealing with struggles with mental health.
- Dear friends who have been having many challenges …. Four-year old diagnosed with leukemia; another couple whose father died. May these friends be surrounded in prayer.
- A husband going through cancer treatments for pancreatic cancer.
- A caregiver making difficult decisions.
We give thanks for ….
- A wonderful and hopeful report from neurosurgeon and oncologist!
- The news that we are going to be great-grandparents!
- A member whose cancer is in remission. Praise God from whom all blessings flow!
- Successful surgery and wonderful pathology report after invasive surgery; prayers for strength and healing after the ordeal!
- A couple who just discovered they are expecting a second child!
In this moment, we are scattered across our city, but in you, O God, we are bound together as one. In unity with each other, in the power of the Holy Spirit, and in the name of Jesus Christ, we 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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