Today’s prayer is adapted from Romans 12:9-21 and 14:17-19.
Teach us to love O Lord –
- to share, not hoard or waste, our resources and assets;
- to welcome the stranger;
- to hate what is evil yet cling to what is good;
- to be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer;
- to forgive even those who harm us and ever focus forward on what we might be if we loved others as you do.
Help us to find the ways that lead to peace and mutual learning.
Guide us with your Holy Spirit as we seek the justice, peace, and joy that love can bring.
Support us Lord, as we confront evil, so that we might not be overcome, but might overcome evil with good.
Amen
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