Prayers for the Week of March 22, 2026

Artwork: "Let the Little Children Come" 

by Carmelle Beaugelin Caldwell, 

used with copyright permission 

A Sanctified Art LLC | sanctifiedart.org

Please feel free to join us in the prayers prayed in worship Sunday, March 22, 2026:

Jesus of Nazareth,

you loved lavishly.

You loved your disciples, with their questions and their bumbling mistakes.

You loved the children,

with their tender rears and their easy joy.

You loved the widows and the immigrants,

with their heartbreak and their dreams for a better tomorrow.

You loved the tax collectors and the outcasts,

with their hands open to their neighbors.

You loved like it was easy.

We long to love like that.

So today, we lift up the vulnerable in our community.

Today we pray for the immigrants in our land—

for those running from fear,

longing to give their children a better life.

Today we pray for single parents,

who stretch themselves thin

to be all things for the little ones they love.

Today we pray for those living below the poverty line,

for those who are unsure where their next meal will come from.

Today we pray for those who live in fear due to

the color of their skin, the way that they dress, or the person that they love.

Today we pray for those who are bent over

by the weight of depression, anxiety, or addiction.

We know that you see each of us. So draw near to your children.

Wrap your arms around the vulnerable, the weary, the grief-filled.

Comfort, O comfort your people.

Wrap your arms around us.

We ask that we might be transformed.

We ask that we might bend toward love and move toward compassion.

We ask that you might soften our hearts.

Until your promised day, when all are cared for and seen, this will be our prayer, as we join our voices with the voices of all who have ever called on you, praying the prayer that 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.

Prayer adapted from a prayer by Sarah (Are) Speed | A Sanctified Art LLC |

sanctifiedart.org, used with copyright permission, and with our gratitude.