May We So Break Our Bread
May we so break our bread
In constant, costly giving
That others may be fed. Amen.
(by Lillian Cox; photo via freeimages.com)
For Me, For Me
Jesus, thank you that in you
there is grace my every debt to pay,
blood to wash my every sin away,
and power to keep me spotless day by day,
for me, for me.
(from a hymn by Herbert H. Booth)
For Not Snickering
God,
thank you for not snickering
at my delusion
that I am doing
Really Important Things.
(suggested by a line in Close Enough to Hear God Breathe, by Greg Paul;
photo illustration by @carrier_lost via unsplash.com)
Everywhere
Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church...
nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that everywhere I am in Your Presence.
(a prayer of Susanna Wesley, slightly updated; photo by Ben White via unsplash.com)
For Those Who Have Served
God of peace,we pray for those
who have served our nation
and who laid down their lives
to protect and defend our freedom.
We pray for those who have fought,
whose spirits and bodies
are scarred by war,
whose nights are haunted by memories
too painful for the light of day.
We pray for those who serve us now,
especially for those in harm's way:
shield them from danger
and bring them home.
Turn the hearts and minds
of our leaders and our enemies
to the work of justice and a harvest of peace.
Spare the poor, Lord, spare the poor!
May the peace you left us,
the peace you gave us,
be the peace that sustains,
the peace that saves us.
Christ Jesus, hear us!
Lord Jesus, hear our prayer!
Amen.
(from A Concord Pastor Comments blog)
Against
Lord God, there is so much hate,
so much violence,
so many lies,
so much corruption in this world,
and so much of it
so well financed and organized.
Expose it all, Lord.
End it all.
Deliver us from evil,
in Jesus' name, amen.
(photo illustration by Will Porada via unsplash.com)
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