LORD, help us to see beyond the moment …
Beyond the years …
Beyond the temporary joys and sorrows of life.
Help us, we pray, to see you.
High and lifted up … above and beyond …
Yet within and at hand.
Help us, we pray, to live bravely and faithfully,
To love kindness,
To do justice and walk humbly with you, our God.
Help us, we pray, to cut through the fog of materialism, the pride and the passions of the daily grind.
Help us, we pray, to be positive in all things, for you are at work in all things, for good …
Help us, we pray, to be patient in a hurried world.
To be loving in a culture turned in upon itself.
Help us, we pray, to detest war and love peace.
Help us, we pray, to do more than pray for our soldiers and their safety; help us to work and pray for the end of war – the end of armaments, the end of violence, that the children of the world might grow up in a world of peace.
Help us, we pray, to ignore the cynics who laugh at our vision of a world made new … those who scoff at peace and would, all over again, put your son on trial and sentence him to death.
Help us, we pray, to be bold in our affirmations of faith in Christ and brave in our commitments to work out his peace in our time!
Help us, we pray, to remember the Saints – those who’ve gone before us and have fought the good fight …
Help us, we pray, to continue their work …
To further their vision of a world without tears …
Help us, we pray, to be so faithful to Christ that generations to come will call us saints and number us among those who led the way.
In the simplest of ways, O God, help us to live appreciatively in your world … to savor the food and drink you provide … to see how blue the sky can be, how large the ocean is, how grand the mountains and the rolling prairies.
Help us, we pray:
To love all creatures, great and small, for you have made them all.
To take nothing for granted.
To value every day.
To honor those who love us.
To forgive quickly and let bygones be bygones.
To smile easily and laugh deeply.
To bring cheer to our world.
To stand by the sorrowing.
To be quick to take someone’s hand.
To say, “I love you” and say it often.
To work hard.
To be faithful to those who employ us.
And faithful to those who work for us.
Dear Holy Spirit, open our hearts this morning to the grace of Christ, that we might love him all the more.
That Covenant on the Corner would be filled with a radiant love, a joyful love … the love of Jesus the Christ … your Son and our Savior.
Who taught us to pray, saying, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth …
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