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As we begin Lent, Challenging God, may we live into what is is to experience all that is a Holy Lent.  Help us to look at our lives, the things we are doing well, and the parts of our lives that need improvement.  Let us get rid of those things that we may enjoy, butContinue reading “Prayer for February 18, 2026 Ash Wednesday”

Thank you for allowing us to make mistakes and learn from them, Forgiving God.  You made us inquisitive and curious and able to fail often so we can find success.  May we be supportive of people we work with as they face challenges we do not know.  Let us be examples for our children thatContinue reading “Prayer for January 29, 2026”

As many continue to feel the effects of the winter weather, and are about to experience more, be with them.  Help those who are working to restore power and protect those in need.  Give them strength when they are exhausted.  May those who are providing shelter and food get the supplies they need to makeContinue reading “Prayer for January 28, 2026”

Thank you God for the medical professionals who care for us.  They deal with our anxieties and our fears.  Help them as they are there for some of the best and worst times of people’s lives.  May they feel your presence when their journey is hard.  Guide them as the heal us and care forContinue reading “Prayer for January 27, 2025”

Twenty-six years ago I became a father.  Thank you, God, for the gift of children, especially my wonderful daughters Abby and Audrey.  Watching them grow in to the amazing women they are has been a true joy.  Their compassion and empathy has been so apparent in watching them treat the people they meet as beloved.Continue reading “Prayer for January 26, 2026”

O God, help us to witness to your love.  Let us look to the various ways that you have called us to love one another and treat those we fear as beloved.   May those who embrace hatred have their Saul moment and be transformed to empathetic people.  May those who are fomenting anger and violenceContinue reading “Prayer for January 25, 2026”

I pray for Minnesota, and those who have been victimized by ICE, O God. May we as Christians and Americans stand up and say enough is enough.  May we change the hearts of those who are acting out in violent ways.  Help those in charge of the current strategies change them.  May we once againContinue reading “Prayer for January 24, 2026”

Compline ends with a prayer that is repeated and it is I think one of the most powerful prayers in our prayer book.    Guide us waking, O Lord,  and guard us sleeping, that awake we ma watch with Christ and asleep we may rest in peace.  Too often, O God, we try to fixContinue reading “Prayer for January 23, 2026”

I didn’t write a prayer yesterday, O God.  I let my distractions guide my day, and while I was mindful of you, I did not set aside the time I usually do for prayer.  Yesterday was all in all a good day, and my prayer was the energy I spent caring for those who meanContinue reading “Prayer for January 22, 2026”

  I find myself at the end of the day, O God.  I began the day worried because there were people I cared about whom I wanted to know that I heard them.  I was worried because I wanted them to know that in the world we are right now, a response is not onlyContinue reading “Prayer for January 21, 2026”