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As we begin this new year, Loving God, help us to treat each new day as a gift and opportunity. Let us be open to experiencing new things, meeting new people and learning more about all this world has to offer. May we treat those we encounter with the love and passion we desire inContinue reading “Prayer for January 1, 2023”

As we look back at this year on its final day, O God, there is so much for which to be grateful. The pandemic has slowed for most of the world, and much of our life has returned to some semblance of order. There were celebrations that we were unable to have for a coupleContinue reading “Prayer for December 31, 2022”

There are many people who are dealing with the anxieties of illness, waiting for results and other medical challenges either personally or for those they love during this season in which so many are celebrating. Help them to feel your calming presence, O God. May they, and those they love, know the power of prayer.Continue reading “Prayer for December 30, 2022”

Thank you Creator God, for the beauty of the world you have given us. As we watch the wind blow though the trees it is easy to imagine so many different things. From where it is headed to what it has seen along the way. May we enjoy the scents that comes from both yourContinue reading “Prayer for December 29, 2022”

Thank you, God, for the gift of respite. This week after Christmas always seems to be one of those times when there is less stress and is incredibly regenerative. May we take those times when they are given us and not fill them with a need to be doing something. May those breaks remind usContinue reading “Prayer for December 28, 2022”

Help us to celebrate this season where families and friends seem to want to gather, O God who calls us to community. May we share the stories of our lives from the times we last met, and reminisce about the times that we had with one another and those who are no longer with us.Continue reading “Prayer for December 27, 2022”

May peace prevail this day, Loving God. On this second day of Christmas and the Feast of Saint Stephen, may we find ways to turn swords into plowshares. Give us the imagination to see a world where the resources we have devoted to destruction and war are redistributed toward creating those things that enhance ourContinue reading “Prayer for December 26, 2022”

May this day be filled with joy and laughter, Loving Jesus. As we celebrate your birth and all the implications that beings the world, may we relish in the wonder of new birth. Help us to see the world with the excitement and thirst for new experiences that seem to come so easily to aContinue reading “Prayer for December 25, 2022”

As the sun sets this evening many will be gathering to celebrate the Nativity of the Christ Child. May we, O God of All remember all that your coming to walk among us means. The fact that you would come to the world you created, and we often destroy, in order that we might beContinue reading “Prayer for December 24, 2022”

There are those days when everything seems to be just a little different, and challenging, O God. My best intentions for Christmas Adam had me doing many different things than life provided this day. Thank you God for this day that is ending. In a rare event, I did not begin my day writing aContinue reading “Prayer for December 23, 2022”