Creator and Giver of all Good, You are God Most High – the source of all life, light, and love. You are worthy of our praise and our adoration. We lift our collective voices to declare that you are majestic in holiness, perfect in wisdom, and boundless in mercy. It is of this mercy that […]
Prayers for Israel
Israel is held in these prayers chiefly through conflict and its aftermath: rocket fire and airstrikes, hostages and ceasefires, and the grief shared with Palestine and Lebanon. Elections, government tension and corruption inquiries are noted, as are journalists at risk and people who long for an ordinary, secure day.
A Threshold Prayer for the New Year: Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, and the Disasters We Carry Into 2026 (January 1, 2026)
By the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. Luke 1:78-79 God, at the end of […]
Keep Me Traveling: A Thanksgiving Prayer for Immigrants and All Who Speak Truth to Power (November 27, 2025)
The parable of the sheep and goats. ~ Matthew 25 The Lord has shown you what is good. He has told you what he requires of you. You must act with justice. You must love to show mercy. And you must be humble as you live in the sight of your God. ~ Micah 6:8 (NIRV) Be thankful […]
The Beating Heart of Justice: Prayers for Gaza’s Winter Floods, Aid Cuts, and the Amazon at COP30 (November 20, 2025)
Holy One, Eighty years ago this month France, the Soviet Union (now Russia) the United Kingdom, and the United States used the rule of law in setting up a tribunal called the Nuremberg trials. Not outright execution (as was considered) but mindful prosecution brought justice as over two dozen Nazi leaders had their wartime crimes laid out in the light in that initial tribunal. We […]
Let Justice Flow Like Water: Prayers for El Fasher, Hunger in America, and Ukraine (November 6, 2025)
O, Lord, call us, awaken us, awaken us as you called your prophets to speak truth, your truth to this errant world. Amos, a shepherd and arborist, a pruner of trees, and a prophet speaking to power. Hear his words as a season of destruction and genocide flows around us. You trample on the heads […]
Prayers for a Protesting World: Nepal, Kenya, Morocco, and the No Kings Marches (October 23, 2025)
Compassionate God, We look to you today – the source of our strength and hope, Even as protests spread across the world, In Nepal, the Philippines, Indonesia, Kenya, Peru, and Morocco. Even as people – many of whom are young and perhaps idealistic, Take to the streets to stand against widening inequality, economic uncertainty, corruption, […]
Persistent in Hope: Prayers for Madagascar, Alaska, and a Fragile Ceasefire (October 16, 2025)
God of many names, May the beautiful diversity of the people created in your image remind us of the multiplicity of ways we can each experience you. Too often, we place ourselves into a category of us or them, not realizing that you are beyond us, with us, and within us, each of us, all […]
Christ Has No Body But Yours: Prayers for the Gaza Peace Process and Endangered Pangolins (October 9, 2025)
Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks Compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good, Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world. –St. Teresa of Avila (16th Century) One […]
Give Us Eyes to See: A Prayer on the Anniversary of September 11 (September 11, 2025)
On this anniversary of September 11, 2001, we are reminded of the heartbreaking news of the hijacked planes intentionally crashed in New York and Washington, D.C., and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania in the USA. Help us also remember the spirit of unity that arose after those tragic events. That is what we need now, […]
Your Creation Is Groaning: Prayers for Wildfires in Spain and Canada, Floods in Pakistan (August 21, 2025)
Holy One, Your creation is groaning. Our world is full of suffering and strife. We come into our time of prayer with heavy hearts, hurting with those who hurt, weeping with those who weep. Let our prayers be a catalyst for good – let them soften hard hearts, let them bring relief to those in […]
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