Year: 2024

Praying for Peace and Justice on July 7, 2024

Let us Pray.  

Holy One, Help us.

The World is on fire and at home, we see our beloved but flawed democracy in peril even as we celebrate the birth of our country.

We look around and see freedoms we’ve woven into our society’s fabric over decades or centuries taken from us – voting rights, reproductive rights, and a founding principle of our democracy:  that no one is above the law.

We don’t know how to talk to those with whom we disagree and some of us, at least, don’t even want to learn.…

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Praying for Peace and Justice on June 30, 2024

Holy One,

We pray today for young people throughout the world who are rising up against corruption as those in Kenya and for positive action on climate change as well as our New Story friends who are working to bring peace to their troubled homelands.  Help us to know how to be supportive.  In the name of Jesus who brought your message of peace.

Amen

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Praying for Peace and Justice on June 23, 2024

Let us pray for all traumatized people today, for moments of release from the filters of fear, for experiences of beauty and love that remind us that God is present, with us, for us, and in us.

“Oh God, you are the author of beauty and the source of love itself; all that separates us from receiving them challenges our awareness of you.    We see and feel the pervasive darkness of our anxiety and fear.   We struggle with the consequences of chronic trauma in our lives.  

We bring to you now our longing for release.   

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Praying for Peace and Justice on June 9, 2024

Holy One, hear our prayer that the use of nuclear weapons is dismissed by all humanity as a way to wage war. And Holy One, while we’re at it, we pray that there is war no more. 

May it be so, Amen.

Background:

Yesterday the news, which others may have seen, contained a story that the U.S. is considering building up the nuclear arsenal again. It’s true that countries with whom we are in conflict have nuclear arsenals, and threaten to use them. I confess that the mere thought of this scares me more than I can express.

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