Sunday Prayer

Gracious and Loving God, we give you thanks for this day and for the blessings we find in it. We thank you for all the goodness around us – for small and great acts of kindness that remind us of your presence in our complicated world.

We thank you for the people who inspire us to live lives of faithfulness and compassion. We thank you for the prophetic voices who call us to remember that your love is for all people. Thank you for those who work for the cause of peace and justice in your world, and guide us to do likewise.

Grant your presence and your peace to all in need of your grace and healing. We pray for all who are ill in body, mind or spirit…for those who are poor, or hungry, or oppressed…for those who feel no joy in the passing of each day…and for all who have been hurt or excluded from the best things in life on the basis of their race, gender, socioeconomic place, sexual orientation or physical and developmental ability.

Be with all of these, O God, and pour out the blessing of your Spirit upon them, and bring them the peace of knowing your amazing grace. Guide us as we go from here, that we may be the hands and feet of Christ in the world. May we see the face of Christ in everyone we meet, and may we embrace the world with your peace, your justice, and your love.

And now in the name of the One who taught his friends how to pray, we sing together…

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