World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

O Come, O Come Emmanuel: Prayers for Migrants, the Michigan School Shooting, and Yemen (December 2, 2021)

O Come, O Come Emmanuel God with us, We are so grateful that you are with us. In every moment of our being. The moments when we feel You beating in echo with our hearts and the moments when we feel completely alone.  We do not have to ask, You are already and always with […]

When Can We Celebrate Thanksgiving: Prayers for Migrants, Floods, and a Bus Crash (November 25, 2021)

The Lord has yet more light and truth to break forth from his word Lord, it’s been a pleasant day, in a month of pleasant days and yet I sit here shaking my head in disbelief. This pleasant day results from a much warmer than normal month.   Was there really any progress made at […]

May Your Kin-dom Come: Prayers for Ecuador’s Prisons, Uganda, and Afghanistan’s Hunger (November 18, 2021)

Our Mother, Father in heaven. Thank you for your Presence within and through us and all that lives. Thank you for teaching us how to pray. Reveal to us who you are. We see you in the wonder of discovery like the bee expert who found 800,000 bees in an ancient British forest. We see […]

A Prayer for the Lonely: Nicaragua’s Election, the Texas Crowd Surge, and the Belarus Border (November 11, 2021)

Heavenly God, You are the God of our hearts. The God whose love fills our hearts even when they feel empty. You are the God who seeks us out when we have no one and are in the loneliest of places. We are so grateful, God. Grateful when you hold us when we cannot hold […]

Give Us Eyes to See: Prayers for Journalists Under Threat, the Darien Gap, and Las Vegas (October 7, 2021)

Holy One, Help us in our struggle of claiming to know when we do not know, of disrespecting others wellbeing and thinking we do not share the same world, drive down the same streets, share the harvest, hospital beds and soldier against disasters and pandemics. Help each of us to follow Christ’s path of compassion. […]

Butterfly Prayers: For Haitian Migrants, La Palma’s Volcano, and Afghanistan’s Women (September 30, 2021)

God of limitless love, Thank you for creating us with expansive capacity for love. The heart is a vast landscape. What wonder this is that we can feel so many different emotions, seemingly conflicting, at the same time, that we can love so deeply. Sometimes in the face of all the suffering we see, we confuse love […]

A Prayer for a Divided World: The UN Assembly, La Palma’s Volcano, and Haitians at the Border (September 23, 2021)

Source of love and life, there are so many in need of your tender loving care. We uplift to you in prayer all who need your healing embrace in the fragile and hurting world this day. Christ, you said, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you.” This peace is one deeply […]

Twenty Years After 9/11: Prayers for Afghanistan, Hurricane Ida, and Haiti’s Earthquake (September 9, 2021)

Holy One, We have so many prayers on our hearts, sometimes it is hard to know where to begin. We sit a moment in silence to seek out your Spirit as we enter into this time of prayer. As we approach the 20th anniversary of 9/11 on Saturday, we remember all those who lost their […]

Prayers of Thanksgiving and Lament: Mars Rovers, Madagascar’s Famine, and Haiti (August 26, 2021)

The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it; for he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the rivers. (Psalm 24:1) Holy One, you have created a magnificent universe. We raise up prayers of thanksgiving for your manifold blessings. Especially we […]