Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom…Be dressed for action and have your lamp lit. Luke 12:32-40 Not a warning, but a gentle reminder like waking up a child from sleep to get ready for the journey of the day, we too have clothes […]
For Every Child on This Planet: Prayers Against Abuse, Trafficking, and Gun Violence (February 27, 2025)
O Mighty Warrior, our hearts are breaking, there is fire in our veins, and we wrestle with demons when we close our eyes at night. Our children are facing atrocities that could break the strongest of humans. We are killing them in mind, body, spirit. Please hear us beg for mercy…for every child on this […]
Always We Begin Again: Prayers After the Jeju Air Crash, New Orleans, and Jimmy Carter’s Death (January 2, 2025)
Always We Begin Again “The first rule is simply this; live this life and do whatever is done, in a spirit of Thanksgiving. Abandon attempts to achieve security, they are futile, give up the search for wealth, it is demeaning, quit the search for salvation, it is selfish, and come to comfortable rest in the […]
A World Without School Shootings: A Prayer After Georgia and for Migrants in the Channel (September 5, 2024)
God of all seasons, of all people, of each other… may we be lifted into a new season and a new way of being in your world. A world without school shootings, as another has just taken place in Georgia, United States. A world without war and conflict, as this past week a 16-year old […]
Violence Breeds Violence: A Prayer After the Trump Rally Shooting and Attacks on Candidates (July 18, 2024)
Recent days remind us of the strong grip of political violence in our world. The words from a speech on this topic of 1968’s United States Presidential candidate and assassination victim Robert Kennedy ring true. In Ecuador, five people have been imprisoned this month for their roles in last August’s assassination of presidential candidate Fernando […]
Thanksgivings, Concerns, and Celebrations: Prayers for Ukraine, Kenya, and a World in Heat (July 20, 2023)
Mother God, we come to you with thanksgivings. We are grateful to be loved by You. We are grateful for hands to hold, for kindness, and for grace. We are grateful for sunshine, rain, and rainbows. We are grateful for the farmers and laborers who give us our daily bread. We are grateful for forgiveness. […]
Lord, Have Mercy: Prayers for US Mass Shootings, Alberta’s Wildfires, and Children Forced into Labor (May 11, 2023)
God of all, the One who hears our prayers, our tears could cover the earth for the abuse of children, the flagrant killing and loss of life we hear in the news daily. Someday will these words, this news be read? Will those people shake their heads and ask God for mercy on our […]
Free Us, Living God: After the Ohio Derailment and Michigan State (February 16, 2023)
Spirit of the living God, help us to let love lead us forward. Many of our hearts are broken. The news in the world is grim. Violence is pervasive. Like ink, slowly seeping to the edge of a cloth, we watch as it spreads, eventually damaging the whole fabric. Soothe our suffering and enable us […]
You Have the Truth to Set Us Free: A Thanksgiving Prayer for the Trafficked and Displaced (November 24, 2022)
“… for I am verily persuaded the Lord hath more truth yet to break forth out of His Holy Word.” John Robinson. Lord, the news is difficult, often strange, maybe false, maybe half truth, out of context and fuelled by conspiracy. What a relief to know that you have the truth contained within yourself; granted […]
When Will the Shootings End: A Prayer After Highland Park and Copenhagen (July 7, 2022)
Gracious and loving God, there is not a moment that we do not belong to you. You claim us as your beloved from beginning to end. Reassured and emboldened by this good news, we uplift our petitions and prayers to you this day, knowing nothing separates us from you and your love for us. God […]
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