SELECTED PRAYERS FROM JANUARY 2025 INTERCESSION PAPER
For those who have fled to this country from war, violence, starvation, and fear, we ask you, dear Lord, to keep them safe. Help them to find restful sanctuary and open the hearts of the citizens of this country to
SELECTED PRAYERS FROM NOVEMBER 2024 INTERCESSION PAPER
None of your cleanliness-is-next-to-godliness for my God. The one who strews the forest floor With dead leaves and twigs like pick-up sticks? Who scatters pinecones like popcorn at the ballpark? Mine is a God who makes a mess and leaves it there. Seeing beauty, God
SELECTED PRAYERS FROM OCTOBER 2024 INTERCESSION PAPER
Cover prayer: This day of my life Be bound to the way Of a throng Who ceaselessly pray. An up-woven life, Bound by the thong Of a saving thorn To Love’s very Life Who upborn of the Spirit, With God Is in song— God’s Joy. —Elizabeth Randall-Mills, SCHC (1961-1993) Monday: Creator God, just as we
SELECTED PRAYERS FROM SEPTEMBER 2024 INTERCESSION PAPER
Each morning, this prayer springs out of me In yearning, hoping love For the peace of the world, and for the healing of Your Creation And now, for our country
SELECTED PRAYERS FROM JUNE 2024 INTERCESSION PAPER
Holy God, your peace is the peace we seek to reconcile our anxious thoughts. Your peace offers perspective and leads to wisdom. Blanket our minds and hearts with your peace so we let your peace permeate to our cores and
SELECTED PRAYERS FROM MAY 2024 INTERCESSION PAPER
Great, Giving God, to whom we are moved by Love and Joy to praise and to offer thanksgiving. You are the springtime of our souls and of the earth upon which we live. Thank you for those tiny nudges and for the
