Please feel free to join us in the prayers prayed in worship Sunday, November 10, 2024:
Loving God,
you created all that is in love,
and in your hesed,
you accompany your creation
with unshakeoffable lovingkindness.
We pray today for the poor, and all who are vulnerable and marginalized.
We pray for those who are unhoused, for shelter;
for those who are hungry, food enough and more.
We pray healing for all the hurt in the world –
healing for aching bodies,
healing for weary and shaken spirits,
healing for the world we have damaged, in this time of unravelling;
we pray comfort for those who mourn,
and companionship for those who are lonely.
We pray liberation for all who are held captive –
for the well-being of those in physical prisons,
and release also for those bound up in addiction,
those immobilized by fear,
freedom for all those whose backs are up against a wall.
We pray freedom from every kind of oppression,
for an end to systems that oppress,
and particularly for an end to American systems of racism.
Help us to see the role we play,
and all the ways that our nation perpetuates and re-fuels those systems,
and then stop us – stop us from the harm those systems cause.
Show us how to build a better world with you.
And we pray for peace – wherever there is war
in Ukraine, in Israel-Palestine, in Sudan,
we pray for peace with justice,
that all your children can live and thrive.
Grounding ourselves in your unshakeoffable loving kindness,
that binds us together, transcending all the forces that work to keep us apart,
we pray the prayer Jesus taught, saying:
Our Father/Mother, 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 sins, as we forgive those who sin 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.
Photo credit: Daniel Schwarz, used with permission via Unsplash
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