Posts Tagged ‘hope’
April 18, 2022
He has risen
giving us hope
that we too can love sacrificially,
strengthen our communities,
pursue justice, and
survive oppression,
together.
Hope
that we can change the world for our children – all children.
Hope
that they might thrive, finding
food, water, shelter, and opportunities to use the talents God gave them,
together.
Hope
that we might move towards love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control,
and away from the politics of power and control.
He has risen.
Alleluia!
Amen
Tags:children, Easter, faithfulness, gentleness, goodness, hope, joy, kindness, love, opportunity, patience, peace, politics, Prayer, self-control, thrive
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December 3, 2021
He is coming.
And he brings the hope of a better world.
The oppressor will come to an end, and destruction will cease;
the aggressor will vanish from the land.
In love a throne will be established;
in faithfulness a man will sit on it –
one from the house of David –
one who in judging, seeks justice and speeds the cause of righteousness.
[Isaiah 16:4-5]
We hope and wait.
Amen
Tags:Advent, hope, justice, righteousness, waiting
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June 13, 2021
Today’s prayer is from Psalm 72, v. 12-14
For he will deliver the needy who cry out,
the afflicted who have no-one to help.
He will take pity on the weak and the needy
and save the needy from death.
He will rescue them from oppression and violence,
for precious is their blood in his sight.
Amen
Tags:country, hope, justice, oppression, politics, Prayer, rescue, United States, USA, violence
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June 6, 2021
The prayer today incorporates a paragraph from Across That Bridge by Congressman John Lewis.
“[N]o matter how tarnished or weak the flame, when the forces of darkness seem like they are about to consume us, we will ourselves to survive, and we begin to stand in the center of our inner light and invite its power to clear away the darkness that has clouded the soul.”
Help your light shine in us and through us Lord, that we might find a better way to live and work together.
Amen
Tags:change, hope, light, politics, Prayer, United States, USA
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April 11, 2021
Today’s prayer is adapted from Psalm 15.
Lord, who may dwell in your sanctuary? Who may live on your holy hill?
He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from his heart
and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbor no wrong and casts no slur on his fellowman,
who despises a vile man but honors those who fear the Lord, who keeps his word even when it hurts,
he does not take unfair advantage of those in need, and does not accept a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things will never be shaken.
Lord help us to find hope in your word, and to choose leaders who follow your path of humility, wisdom and peace.
Amen
Tags:country, generosity, hope, humility, peace, politics, Prayer, righteousness, US, USA, wisdom
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March 21, 2021
Thank you Lord for vaccines and sunny days; the sounds of children playing, a casual encounter with friends, flowers pushing up through the earth, a good meal.
For all these things that give us hope.
Don’t let the gun shots, the hurt that fills our hearts, the hate that spews through our media, or the uncertainty that surrounds us, take that hope away.
Help us to focus on the many signs of your presence in our world, and reach out to others in love and compassion.
Lead us forward O Lord.
Amen
Tags:care, compassion, country, hate, hope, love, politics, Prayer, United States, USA
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January 17, 2021
We are a broken and grieving people O Lord.
Broken relationships, broken promises, broken bodies, broken lives.
We are broken Lord, although not beyond repair.
Please let your grace shine through and in our broken places.
Help us to repent O Lord, and to walk in your ways.
Give us wisdom, give us courage, give us humility, give us integrity, give us compassion, give us mercy, give us love.
Help us to discern fact from folly, and turn us from false gods.
Heal us O Lord, and give us hope.
Amen
Tags:broken, brokenness, compassion, country, courage, grief, grieving, healing, hope, humility, integrity, mercy, politics, Prayer, repentance, USA, wisdom
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January 3, 2021
As we start a new year, we share the following prayer from the encyclical “All Brothers” published by Pope Francis on October 3, 2020. The encyclical provides guidance for our civic lives. The prayer is titled “An Ecumenical Christian Prayer” and appears following paragraph 287. Let us commit ourselves to caring for one another and strengthening our communities.
O God, Trinity of love,
from the profound communion of your divine life,
pour out upon us a torrent of fraternal love.
Grant us the love reflected in the actions of Jesus,
in his family of Nazareth,
and in the early Christian community.
Grant that we Christians may live the Gospel,
discovering Christ in each human being,
recognizing him crucified
in the sufferings of the abandoned
and forgotten of our world,
and risen in each brother or sister
who makes a new start.
Come, Holy Spirit, show us your beauty,
reflected in all the peoples of the earth,
so that we may discover anew
that all are important and all are necessary,
different faces of the one humanity
that God so loves. Amen.
Tags:brotherhood, community, country, diversity, healing, hope, humanity, light, love, politics, Prayer, United States, USA
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December 27, 2020
Light of the world, shine in our hearts, that we might see and act with compassion.
Shine in our minds that we might love justice, and act wisely.
Dispel our fears, our anger, our resentments, our sorrows and despair.
Shine on our hands that we might reach out in love.
Shine on our feet that we might find the path of peace.
Guide us O Lord through the new year.
Amen
Tags:anger, compassion, country, despair, fear, guidance, hope, justice, light, love, moving forward, new year, peace, politics, Prayer, USA, wisdom
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Prayers For Our Country 