Eternal God, always good, always faithful, always hopeful, always true …
We lift our praises to you.
Grateful for our lives.
Because it’s good to be here.
To be alive in Christ, to know Christ, to serve him to the best of our ability.
To join with him in building a better world.
To let the light shine.
To give peace a chance.
To heal the wounds of the soul.
To challenge the idolatries of religion and its love of temples.
To challenge the ideologies of nationalism and its love of power.
To speak the truth of the gospel.
To walk with Christ.
To take his yoke upon us and learn from him.
Your ways, O God, the ways of the kingdom.
We pray today for our schools.
For our city council.
For our mayor.
And our governor.
We pray for our state.
We pray for our legislators and our judges.
We thank you for our natural resources.
The high Sierras and their stored vistas …
The crashing surf of the Pacific …
We pray for the women and men who farm … who raise and harvest our lettuce and radishes and dates and tomatoes and avocados and oranges and cucumbers and carrots.
We pray, O God, that we will have your eyes …
To see your world as you do.
To look upon one another with grace.
To bestow dignity upon the least of these …
To speak words of hope and encouragement …
To lift up and never put down.
To speak the truth in love, LORD, because, we’ve learned the hard way, a thousand times over, where there is no love, there is no truth either.
Bless us we pray in the remains of the day.
Watch over our loved ones and guide our steps.
Rest your Spirit upon Pastor Cathy Chisholm as she makes her move from Texas to California, to become our pastor. Bless her family and friends, and fill her with your joy.
We are ready, LORD.
We are eager.
We are yours.
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, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven …
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