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:
David Moldstad
Celebratory prayers on the occasion of David Moldstad's ninety-eighth birthday this August 17th. David and Marty express gratitude for their membership at Westminster and their many friends here.
Mary Marie Deauclaire, Juli Douglass-Gillespie's sister
Mary Marie arrives to Wooster tomorrow. Prayers for safe travel and for support and guidance as she settles into her new home here after 50 years in California.
Otis Whitmore
Prayers for comfort and healing.
Isaac Hostetler
Prayers for continued healing.
As a new school year begins, we pray for the children and youth whose lives feel upside down, once again. May they be surrounded by nurture and structure to feel safe. We pray for teachers who have prepared classrooms and lesson plans. May they find support and encouragement in their calling. We pray for school leaders and administrators who must make difficult decisions. May they find guidance and compassion. We pray for parents who feel like there are no right choices. May they know that they are not alone as they navigate in the midst of rocks and hard places. We pray for those who sweep floors and prepare meals. May their work be recognized as love in practice (prayer adapted from Kayla Craig).
We pray for places across the world ravaged by natural disasters like floods, wild fires, earthquakes and storms. Today we especially pray for those who lost their lives in the recent earthquake in Haiti, for all who suffered damage from the earthquake and the subsequent tropical storm. Prayers also for those affected by wildfires in the western part of US, in the Jerusalem area, by floods in China and across Europe.
We pray for the people struggling for freedom, peace and justice; for places torn by conflict, famine and violence.
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.
