Author: Trish Nemore

Praying for Peace and Justice on November 16, 2025

Heavenly Parent, Teacher, Source of All Wisdom, you have given humans your great gift of creativity. Help us to use it with joy and abandon, while also being mindful that what we create can do harm as well as good, and it’s our responsibility to fix that harm.

This weekend is a weekend of remembrance for all those killed or injured by cars on our roads. We remember Summer Lim and James Anderson, local youth kill this year while walking or biking to or from school, as well as others. We ask for your blessing and healing for grieving families, and for encouragement for our representative, Jamie, and our senator, Chris, who are working legislatively to see this priority reflected in our transportation budget.…

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Praying for Peace and Justice on November 9, 2025

Dear God, your word and spirit have taught millions across the centuries to love our neighbors.  You taught us through vision, the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament as well as many other faith traditions that lives, all lives, will be supported by organizing the means to share abundance where it is absent.

We pray that your support will continue to feed us with love, gratitude, faith and hope so that we continue to pursue your vision.  May Peace and Justice prevail! Amen.

Background

For the Peace and Justice  prayer this morning, I hold up “community-based organizations.” …

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Praying for Peace and Justice on October 26, 2025

Holy Creator, in this time of fear and feeling like the ground we stand on is crumbling beneath our feet, we struggle to know what is ours to do to make sure that our children and the generations that follow are imbued with the love, beauty, and sense of awe and wonder that you intend for all.

To my beloved community I offer as prayer Crys Matthews’ inspirations for her song Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers from six muses: 

Her mom reminded her that she had seen many presidents come and go in her lifetime and was still standing.…

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Praying for Peace and Justice on October 19, 2025

In a space of getting organized, when it is time to admit that what was standing before has now been collapsed or washed away, we might feel like we are in the mud like wet sand on the beach. Some people among us will see the sandcastles we could build, and some of us just see mud.

God,

May be have the clarity, honesty, faith and courage

to hear the voices of the sandcastle people over the defeating crash of the waves.

Amen.

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Praying for Peace and Justice on October 12, 2025

Let us Pray

Holy Breath of Creation,

We read this morning’s headline – “Israelis and Palestinians Await Hostage – Prisoner Swap with Relief and Elation” and we, too, feel relief and elation.  We see the long lines of Palestinian families making their way back north to their homes and we are grateful for that sight, even as we know the monumental and heartbreaking task of rebuilding ahead of them.

We know how fragile this peace plan is.  We sense how easy it may be for a few who are not feeling relief and elation but rather anger and betrayal at the laying down of arms to derail it.…

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