With adoration and gratitude, O God, we lay before you our prayers of the day: you are a most generous God, working tirelessly to sustain the world you love, to guide the creature you endowed with remarkable abilities.
You forgive us that we might always have a way forward … you lead us our tomorrows … and along the way, you are the companion, the Good Shepherd.
We pray for our President and Vice President … we pray for our Senators and House Members, we pray for the judges of the land.
We pray for the leaders of industry, particularly our railroads … we pray for the women and men who assemble the trains, their hands upon the throttles, the switches, the lights and the gates … who make it all happen. We pray for them, their unions, and those who make the decisions …
Bless and keep our loved ones, we pray … our children and grandchildren, our parents and grandparents … extended families and co-workers … all the people through whom we find our identity and purpose.
In this Season of Advent, dear God, we rehearse the great themes of our faith: grateful for the love of Christ, born anew in our hearts.
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.
