Author Archives: atwinfather

Today, O God, is the first day of school at St Marks. May all the students, faculty, staff and parents be ready for a great day. Help the first timers as they begin their educational journey, and their parents as they watch their children walk into what is the start of so many great things.Continue reading “Prayer for AUgust 17, 2022”

Creator God, thank you for making us people who want to make new things. You gave us the desire to build new and better things and made us inquisitive. May we continue to have the desire to make things better, and celebrate those who do the hard work of creating. Help us to honor theContinue reading “Prayer for August 16, 2022”

Thank you God for the Hero’s in our lives. They may be our coaches, teachers, friends or some other thing, but somehow they make us desire to be better. Some of them are the ones who make us see the world in a better and new way, while others make the complex somehow more understandable.Continue reading “Prayer for August 15, 2022”

Help us, O God, to release those things that are weighing us down and set them at the altar so that we can run the race that you have set before us unencumbered. Help us to let go of the guilt we still feel even though you have forgiven us. Let us also set asideContinue reading “Prayer for August 14, 2021”

Give us the words we need to share your love with those we meet today, Loving God. May our actions today express our desire to make our world a better place. When we are given the opportunity to serve others give us the will to accomplish it. If we are challenged today help us toContinue reading “Prayers for August 13, 2022”

Give us peace, O God, as we end what for many is a long week. May we release the stresses we have felt as we move into the weekend so that we can fully recharge our batteries for the next week. Help us to focus on those around us and not the challenges that mayContinue reading “Prayer for August 12, 2022”

May we see this day from the eyes of a child. Let us live today without the barriers we have put upon ourselves over time. Let us laugh uncontrollably, sing and dance wildly and play with true joy. We may not be able to do all we once did, but we can reminisce on thoseContinue reading “Prayer for August 11, 2022”

May we experience this day fully, Creator God. Helps us, from the start of this day, listen to the symphony of sounds that will surround us. May we see the beauty of the world and notice the glorious things we have missed along the way to our regular journeys. May the aromas of the dayContinue reading “Prayer for August 10, 2022”

May we find common ground, O God. It seems that there are so many forces that seek to divide us and increase hate as the predominant emotion. Help us to change the narrative. May those of us who are called to love one another as you loved us and to love our neighbor as ourselvesContinue reading “Prayer for August 9, 2022”

It is that time of year, O God, when teachers and other school employees are putting on the final preparations for the school year. Be with them some experience the anxiety, stress, timelines and start of the year dreams that often come this time of year. Help them to know that they will find theirContinue reading “Prayer for August 8, 2022”