Eternal God, thank you.
Thank you for the gift of life.
However hard life is sometimes, LORD, it’s good to be here.
Good to be alive.
To feel sunshine on our face.
To smell rain in the air.
To hear wind rustling the leaves of fall.
To watch waves crash upon the shores of our world.
To see snow in the mountains.
To love and be loved.
To honor and to be honored.
To serve and to be served.
To live for you, God.
In the grace of our LORD Christ.
And by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Eternal God, thank you.
For priests, pastors, rabbis and imams.
We pray for the Roman Catholic Church and Pope Benedict.
We pray for Protestant Churches and Independent Churches.
We pray for those who follow the ways of Judaism and Islam.
We pray today for world leaders.
For the United Nations.
For our neighbors to the north and to the south.
We pray for the nations of the Middle East.
And we pray for the war-torn nation of Afghanistan.
We pray for soldiers everywhere.
We pray for their commanders.
And we pray for peace.
A day when nations will lay down their arms.
And for that day, O God, we yearn.
For that good day, we pray.
And for that day of peace, we work.
Forgive our world and its warring ways.
For religion when it waves the flag and loves the gun.
Forgive the nations that sell arms and profit from war.
Forgive the multi-national corporations who shun ethics for the sake of profits.
And forgive us, O LORD, when we turn a deaf ear to the cries of our world, and a blind eye to injustice.
We pray for Covenant on the Corner today.
Giving thanks for your grace in our midst.
Leading us all these years.
Guiding us through times of challenge and hardship.
Doing might works in our midst.
Changing hearts and minds.
Saving lost souls.
Getting us through the worst of times.
Enabling us to love you and to love one another.
In the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, who taught us to pray, saying, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come …
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