Lord, thank you for these hymns of faith that help us to express our love and gratitude for your goodness and love. We are especially grateful for the many composers and hymn writers who help us to sing our faith.
We lift up to you those on our church’s prayer list as well as the joys and concerns that we offer to you from our hearts this, especially the victims of the recent shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Surround each of these persons and situations with your healing, guiding, and comforting presence. May they know of our prayers for them this day.
On this Labor Day weekend, we also thank you for people whose work makes our lives so much easier. Remind us to be even more appreciative of their labor, their abilities, their time, and their service.
Thank you for students who are preparing for a particular job or career path. We pray that their education, their training, and their credentialing will be used to help make this world a better place, a place that is filled with your justice and peace.
We are also mindful on this weekend of those who are retired or semi-retired and who offer their time and resources through volunteer work in our community and through the life of the church. Thank you for blessing us through their willing hands and hearts. Help all of us to remember the Sabbath and to take time to rest from our work and enjoy your creation.
And as this morning prayer hymn says, “Take our lives, and let them be consecrated, Lord, to thee. Take our moments and our days; let them flow in ceaseless praise. Take our hands and them move at the impulse of thy love. Take our feet and let them be swift and beautiful for thee.”
We pray this in the name of Jesus who taught us to pray…
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
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