Prayers for the Week of June 29, 2025

Please feel free to join us in praying the prayers prayed in worship Sunday, June 29, 2025:

Loving God,

you created the world and all that is,

and you accompany and sustain your creation.

In all our broken places,

you bring your healing,

always, always longing for our well-being.

Even when we don’t take the time to notice,

your grace abounds.

We take time now... to notice...

and give you thanks and praise.

As we lean into your grace,

we ask for your healing help.

For all the places in the world

wracked by war and violence,

we pray for peace with justice.

Cure us of our warring madness.

For the violence of our own nation,

and particularly the violence of systems of oppression,

we pray that you will give us broader scope for the imagination,

to see and stop our dominating complicity,

and to lend our shoulder to your healing, liberating work.

Help us look to the wisdom of those who have been harmed the most,

and from them and with them, learn to build a better world.

We pray healing for all the ways we have harmed the earth,

healing in the midst of this climate unravelling.

Help us of our consuming ways,

teach better ways to live in relationship with the earth and each other.

Help us help you

bring healing to those who are ailing,

companionship to those who are lonely,

comfort to those who mourn.

Help us be shelter to those who are far from home,

those who are unhoused, those who are migrating.

Help us feed those who hunger.

Help us build a world where everyone has enough,

where every child can not only survive,

but live and thrive.

 We pray all this, knowing that we are not alone,

that you are always with us,

and you have given us the gift of life in community.

And so, in communion with everyone who has longed for healing,

everyone who has called out to you,

we join our voices with their voices,

praying the prayer that Jesus taught.

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.