Prayer List
May this be the day
We come together.
Mourning, we come to mend,
Withered, we come to weather,
Torn, we come to tend,
Battered, we come to better.
Tethered by this year of yearning,
We are learning
That though we weren’t ready for this,
We have been readied by it.
We steadily vow that no matter
How we are weighed down,
We must always pave a way forward.
This hope is our door, our portal.
Even if we never get back to normal,
Someday we can venture beyond it,
To leave the known and take the first steps.
So let us not return to what was normal,
But reach toward what is next.
What was cursed, we will cure.
What was plagued, we will prove pure.
Where we tend to argue, we will try to agree,
Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,
Where we weren’t aware, we’re now awake;
Those moments we missed
Are now these moments we make,
The moments we meet,
And our hearts, once all together beaten,
Now all together beat.
Come, look up with kindness yet,
For even solace can be sourced from sorrow.
We remember, not just for the sake of yesterday,
But to take on tomorrow.
*Amanda Gorman, from “New Day’s Lyric”
This week we pray for:
Diane Chupp
Continued prayers for healing and comfort for Diane. The surgeries on both eye were successful.
Jean Huang, friend of Sue-Min Lee
Prayers for healing and comfort for Sue-min's high school classmate Jean Huang. She lives in Taiwan, and had a motorcycle accident in January that caused bleeding in her brain. After some time in the hospital, she is now recuperating at home.
David and Mary Moldstad
Continued prayers for David and Mary during this time of more limited visits at Brookdale due to Covid cautions. They appreciate your care and concern and love receiving cards.
During these winter days, we pray for those who do not have a safe and warm place to call home. We pray for all in our community who are supporting the operation of the Severe Weather Shelter at the Salvation Army.
We pray for the lingering challenges at the US southern border, and especially for the many around the world seeking asylum, help, and care.
We pray for the people struggling for freedom, peace and justice; for places torn by conflict, famine and violence. We give thanks for all who work to make this world a more peaceful place.
As Covid test positivity rates are still at 22% in our county, we pray for wisdom so that all will do the right thing to protect the wellbeing of our communities. We pray for exhausted medical staff who care for the sick; for people in countries with no access to the vaccine and for people who refuse to be vaccinated.
