Prayer List
Open unto me, light for my darkness
Open unto me, courage for my fear
Open unto me, hope for my despair
Open unto me, peace for my turmoil
Open unto me, joy for my sorrow
Open unto me, strength for my weakness
Open unto me, wisdom for my confusion
Open unto me, forgiveness for my sins
Open unto me, tenderness for my toughness
Open unto me, love for my hates
Open unto me, Your Self for myself
Holy Wonder, open unto me!
*Prayer by Howard Thurman
This week we pray for:
Judy Mowrer, Westminster's new Office Administrator
Prayer of gratitude for Judy and blessings to her as she begins this new chapter with Westminster.
Janice, Sherry Hatter-Miller's mom
Prayers for Janice as she struggles with physical and emotional challenges.
Gene Icke, the Miller's neighbor
Prayers for Gene as he transitions to hospice care.
Mary Marie Deauclaire, Juli Douglass-Gillespie's sister
Continued prayers for support and guidance as Mary Marie settles into her new home in Wooster after 50 years in California.
Otis Whitmore
Prayers for comfort and healing.
Isaac Hostetler
Prayers for continued healing.
We pray for peace and comfort for The College of Wooster community and loved ones of student Teague Curless, who died yesterday following injuries sustained in a car accident just outside of Wooster. Teague, a math and physics major from Lexington, KY, was starting his senior year. As President Sarah Bolton reminded us, "Teague was an exceptional student with an incredibly bright future, and a wonderful peer and friend to many. He will be deeply missed here on campus as well as at home. He worked as a tutor and teaching assistant in the physics department and served as a STEM Zone intern, among many other campus connections."
We pray for wisdom and guidance, fulfillment and joy for the College of Wooster community, students, staff and faculty, as they begin a new academic year this week. We rejoice with you that in-person learning is possible again, and we pray for the safety of all as we continue to navigate the challenges of the pandemic.
We pray for places across the world ravaged by natural disasters like floods, wild fires, earthquakes and storms: for the people of Haiti, for those affected by wildfires in the western part of US, in the Jerusalem area, by floods in China and across Europe. Recognizing the devastating affects of climate change all around us, may we be inspired to do more to protect our environment.
We pray for the people struggling for freedom, peace and justice; for places torn by conflict, famine and violence. Today we especially pray for the people of Afghanistan.
We pray for those who grieve, struggle and suffer as infections caused by the Delta variant of COVID-19 are on the rise especially among the unvaccinated in country. We pray for exhausted medical staff who care for the sick; for wisdom to do the right thing to protect the wellbeing of all in our communities; for people in countries with no access to the vaccine.
