Eternal Father, always our Mother - you created us in your image, we all share in the gifts and
We pray this day for our nation - for those who wear the mantle of leadership - our President and Vice President, members of Congress, the Supreme Court … all who hold office and serve the public trust, all across the land, school boards and city councils, governors and sheriffs - may your Holy Spirit, O God, the Spirit of Truth, grant wisdom of judgment, courage of heart, a vibrant patriotism, a new devotion to our founding documents and the quest for our better angels.
We pray for the nations of the world, O God - our hearts are distressed by the present and mounting dangers of war … we pray that good sense will prevail, peace be won … ancient hatreds be softened by the hopes of a brighter future.
We pray for our families and friends … some who suffer in mind and body, some who grieve the death of loved ones, who search for their purpose, lost in fear and sadness. We pray, too, for those in the heights of life, to whom success and privilege have come - of whom much is required, because much has been given.
We pray for the lost and for the found, the blind and the sighted, the poor and the rich, those with power and those without … we pray for our church here on Lake Avenue, for people of faith around the world - help us all, we pray, to build bridges of understanding, to be generous in mind and deed, to welcome all, to celebrate the diversity of your creation. Giving thanks constantly, striving to love with all that we are, and all that we hope to be.
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. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.
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