Prayers for the Week of October 13, 2024

Please feel free to join us in the prayers prayed in worship Sunday, October 13, 2024:

Loving God,

you created everything that is, in love and for love.

You created us – in the image of you –  for life lived in community.

You accompany your people

in every season and circumstance of life –

in places of oppression, bringing us to freedom,

in places of brokenness, bringing us healing,

in places of exile, bringing us home,

always, always helping us rebuild

in the recurring rubble of our world

Your steadfast love endures forever,

and we give you thanks and praise.

We pray for all the hurting places of the world:

We pray for peace, where there is violence and war;

end our warring madness.

We pray for justice where there is oppression,

dismantle systems that need to come down –

systems driven by racism, sexism, xenophobia –

dismantle and help us build together

communities of justice freedom and peace.

We pray healing for every harm,

particularly for the damage we have done to your world.

We pray healing for all the hurt –

for all who are hungry, food enough and more;

for those who are unhoused, shelter;

for those who are refugees, a place to call home;

for those who are ailing in body or spirit, healing;

for those who are grieving, comfort.

For those reeling from Hurricanes Helene and Milton;

help us come alongside them in the rubble, and rebuild.

Help us build our capacity to live for you –

to live so that we might embody the good you desire for your world.

Help us to see ourselves as interconnected with each other,

that we might respond as one to the deep needs of the world.

Knowing that in you, we are connected with all creation,

and all beings around the world and down through the generations,

we join our voices with the voices of all who have ever called on you,

praying with one voice, the prayer that Jesus taught:

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.