Prayers of Church & Community, Feb. 16, 2025
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Holy God, Eternal Light,
Our hearts yearn for your presence …
For so you have made us in this way:
we seek your goodness,
we hunger and thirst for righteousness,
we reach upward to the heavens, and downward into the soul …
we weep with those who weep …
we laugh with those who laugh …
we run the race of life with joy and wonder …
and when toil and trouble come our way,
we bear these burdens with patience and peace …
for you, O God, are at work in all things for good …
when we cannot see the way ahead,
you are at our side …
when we cannot walk, you stand with us quietly …
when we must lay down, you lay down beside us …
in our life, you live within us,
in our death, you surround us with mercy … with a love that cannot be broken.
We are grateful to be here, O God … in this sacred space, bathed in the music of faith … reminded of those who have gone this way before us, who have made straight the way of the LORD, who have cried in their sorrow, and laughed in their joy.
To their journey, O LORD, we add our days … we add our prayers and our energy … we take up the flames of faith and carry them in our heart … we walk in the ways of Christ, and we heal our world … we breath deeply the clear air of love … and with humility and hope, we give ourselves to you, O God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
With simple words and heartfelt dreams, we pray for loved ones, friends and family … those who lost so much in the fires, those who travel afar … those in search of employment … those who need blessed assurance and your divine comfort.
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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