… hear our prayer.
- Hear our prayer for humility in the face of chaos and confusion.
- Hear our prayer for justice, administered without regard for place or privilege.
- Hear our prayer for softened hearts and willing hands.
- Hear our prayer for vital, life-giving connections between all of your people, recognizing common bonds of humanity.
- Hear our prayer for the resiliency of hope in the middle of dark times.
- Hear our prayer for a new willingness to listen deeply to voices other than our own, and those who echo us.
- Hear our prayer for the relief of the physical, emotional, financial, and spiritual suffering of brothers and sisters around the world.
- Hear our prayer for a supernatural infusion of wisdom into those we have appointed to govern over the unremarkable affairs of our lives.
- Hear our prayer for new courage to do your will… even in the face of opposition and hardship.
- Hear our prayer that the sharp edges of power might be hammered into the productive edges of plowshares.
- Hear our prayer for gentle rains and warm sunshine to nurture the fragile, green shoots of new life bursting forth all around us.
- Hear our prayer for the birth of a new world, reshaped into the image you intended at the Dawn of Creation.
In your name and in the name of your incarnate son, Jesus Christ, we pray…
AMEN