Prayers for the Week of November 9, 2025

Please feel free to join us in the prayers prayed in worship Sunday, November 9, 2025. Our prayers included a prayer of visio divina (or "holy seeing"), with this image. Spend some time with this image, see what you notice and what prayer the image and the experience evoke in you. Feel free to use the following guided meditation, leaving space where you need.

In the silence, just take some time to look at this image.

(silence and space for considering the image)

What do you notice? What shimmers or stands out for you?

What do you notice about the color?

the shapes.

the movement…

(silence)

Maybe begin at the bottom, and we can work our way up.

Notice the roots.

the root system,

digging down deep.

(silence)

Thank you, God, for all the ways that you nourish us.

Thank you for our roots,

for those who have gone before and served you in this place,

who have lived life together in this community.

Thank you for our neighbors now here.

And around the world.

Notice how those roots... move up the trunk of the tree.

I'm kind of fascinated by that.

It's like the roots are also on the outside.

Notice that strong trunk supporting the tree.

(silence)

God, may we stand strong with those who need it most.

In a world where people are experiencing food scarcity,

help us work together so that everyone has enough?

In a world filled with injustice,

help us stand with the vulnerable,

to reform and change every system that oppresses,

and help to heal the harm.

Those roots and those vines wind up into the branches and the leaves.

(silence)

God, thank you for the diversity of your creation.

For the bright color of life.

For the seasons of life.

Help us to bear fruit.

Help us be strong, and compassionate and loving.

So that the lives we live might nourish the world.

Thank you for all the ways we are connected, not only with each other.

but with everyone who has ever called on you in every time or place,

thinking of them, and as a part of them, we join our voices with theirs

as we pray 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.