The sky hazy …
The sun is dim …
Ashes fall …
What’s left of so many homes and hopes …
We are stunned by the magnitude …
Heart-broken for the families …
Grateful for the firefighters …
We celebrate the human spirit, O God …
Courage and fortitude …
Faith and hope …
Kindness and mercy …
The willingness to sacrifice …
Daring to dream and endlessly creative …
You have made us well, O God …
In your image …
To see beyond today …
To pick up and start all over again …
We can do these things, O God, for you have made us well.
We give thanks today, for all that is good …
For Lee Gardner and his trip to Nicaragua …
For Ruth Phelps and Shari Stump …
For their faith and love immeasurable …
We give thanks today for all that is good …
For all the nations of the world …
And all who strive for peace …
For women and men of faith who buck the trends and call us to a better life …
For pastors and prophets …
For ministers and missionaries …
For rabbis and imams …
For monks and priests …
For every prayer being said right now …
Every refusal to give in to anger and despair …
Every word of acceptance and welcome …
Every decision to walk on the sunny side of the street …
We give thanks for all that is good …
For Covenant on the Corner …
For our Sunday School teachers and our pre-school …
For our singers and our musicians …
For our elders and our deacons …
For all our members, all our friends … everyone here this morning …
Everyone who’s been here in our 60 years … and for all who will be here in the years ahead …
Bless us, we pray, that we might be a blessing to our world …
Fill us with light, so that we can let our light shine …
Flavor us with grace, that we might be the salt of the earth …
O God of the ages, we vow anew to be faithful to you and to humanity … faithful to this earth and to all of its creatures, great and small …
We pledge anew:
To worship you in spirit and in truth …
To forgive one another and be forgiven …
To do justice, love kindness and walk humbly with you, our God …
In the name of Jesus our LORD, who taught us to pray, saying, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name …
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