Prayers for the Week of May 18, 2025

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Please feel free to join us in the prayers prayed in worship Sunday, May 18, 2025:

Loving God,

you created everything that is,

you created us,

and you have given us the lovely Spring day

to live for you.

Out of our deep gratitude, and praise,

may we live lives this day, and every day

that reflect your abiding, sustaining love for all creation.

We pray for all those you have called us to love and serve.

We pray for the poor and everyone disadvantaged by unjust economic systems.

May we give from what we have so that everyone has enough.

We pray for the brokenhearted:

healing for every hurt and for all who are ailing,

comfort for those who mourn,

companionship for those who are lonely.

We pray for release of every captive –

particularly for those held in detention camps,

and those unjustly imprisoned.

We pray for an end to systems that oppress,

And particularly an end to American systemic racism.

We pray for peace wherever there is war,

peace with justice.

And for the people of Gaza especially we pray

for peace that bring a restoration of the basics need for life

food, water, medical care,

for all that will free them to live and to thrive.

And we pray healing for the earth,

help us find ways to help heal the damage we have done,

and to find ways to live in the emerging realities of climate unravelling.

Send your Spirit to enliven and empower us,

for the living of these days,

helping you to bring justice, healing and peace.

United with all you love, we join our voices

With the voices in every time and place who have ever called on you,

Praying as 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.