Thank you for giving us quiet
moments when we can be still and know that you are God. Thank you for giving us
those special moments like when we are all alone in a chapel and we pour out
our prayers to you. Thank you for giving us moments like when we go to bed
after a long day of clouds and rain, and you provide the most beautiful golden
sunset we have ever seen.
O God, you know how to
refresh our souls and provide us with a better way. And so, we come before you
today to especially pray for people we know who are in need of a better way, a
way of hope, peace, and new life.
We pray for those who are
struggling to provide for their needs. We pray for those who are facing medical
challenges. We pray for those who are experiencing the pain of grief. We pray
for those who feel alone. We pray for those who are feeling empty and who are
looking for a new direction in life. And we pray for those who are anxious
about the future and for all of us this morning as pray for those who are
searching for the missing kayaker from yesterday’s boating accident in the
Hocking River.
Still all of our souls this
day, O God. Show us a better way, a way that leads to fullness of life, to joy,
to a renewed sense of peace, and to an assurance of your forgiving love. Still
our souls, O God. Quiet our souls.
(MOMENTS OF SILENCE)
And in the stillness of this
time of prayer, whatever might be troubling our hearts in this moment, help us
to claim the name where Abraham’s faith was tested from our Genesis reading
this morning. You gave that place the new name, “The Lord will provide.”
We claim that name for our
souls this day, because you always show us a better way. And now, teach us again to pray the words
that Jesus taught us to pray… “Our Father, who art in heaven…”
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