Prayers for the Week of August 10, 2025

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Please feel free to join us in the prayers prayed in worship Sunday, August 10, 2025:

Loving God,

from the beginning all the way until now,

you have created all that is.

Everything we see, hear, taste, feel, experience,

you have created out of that which was not yet visible.

You have accompanied your creation down through the generations,

imagining and longing for us

lives that are healing, loving, and free.

We trust in your love for us in Jesus Christ,

and as we praise you and give thanks,

to your new heaven and new earth, we say Amen – may it be so in us.

We take seriously the world as it is,

even as we long and work for a better world,

and so we bring you the concerns of our hearts.

We pray peace for every place where there is violence and war.

Peace in Ukraine and in the Middle East.

An end to the starvation of the people in Gaza,

a return of hostages,

peace with justice.

We pray for an end to every system that oppresses –

including our own American systems of racial injustice.

Help us see the ways that we are complicit those systems,

and then help us stop.

We pray healing for the world that we have damaged to the point of unravelling.

Teach us better ways to live –

ways of living that lead to more life.

Help us imagine with you a world

shaped by relationships of mutuality and sharing,

overflowing with your grace and peace.

For those who are hungry, we pray for food enough and more.

For those who are unhoused, shelter.

For those who are hurting, healing.

For those who are lonely, companionship.

For all who grieve, comfort.

For all the separations and divisions,

a world that is healed and whole.

All these prayers – make them so

in the life we live together.

Loving Christ, in Resurrection

you give us life stronger than any power that can do us harm,

and the imagination that enables us to see, with you, and create a better world.

Help us learn how to live as the Body of Christ,

to embody more and more, day by day,

your justice, healing, and peace.

Loved by you, in the great company of the faithful

in every time and place,

who have ever called your name,

we pray the prayer Jesus taught, saying:

Our Father/Mother, 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 sins, as we forgive those who sin 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.