March 22, 2026 (Lent)
Beulah UMC & Oak Grove UMC
Lord Jesus, thank you for this 6-week Season of Lent to help us survey your wondrous cross. This time of year that leads us to your cross and your empty tomb reminds us that we don’t often take time to survey those areas of our lives that are in need of healing, hope, forgiveness, and comfort.
And today, we confess that we often don’t take the needed time to work through the losses that we experience in our lives, especially the loss of loved ones. Thank you for reminding us today that you also experienced grief when you stood at the tomb of your friend, Lazarus. And how you must continue to grieve with us whenever we experience deep loss in our lives.
Just as you prayed for and comforted Mary and Martha who were grieving the loss of Lazarus, we also want to pray for those who are going through a time of loss or in need of healing. And so we lift up to you those on our prayer list as well as other people who are on our hearts and minds this day. May they each know that with you, there is hope and there is always a new beginning.
May all of us receive your gift of joy in days of health and strength as well as the gifts of your abiding presence and promise in our days of pain and grief. Above all else, we thank you for knowing our griefs, for dying our death, rising for our sake, and for offering us this prayer to comfort and reassure us especially when we have grieving hearts…
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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