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Prayer List
Blessed are we,
beginning to feel some release...
from the long sad season of anxious vigilance,
the boredom and frustration of plans deferred.
There is new ground appearing,
and paths we didn’t know were there.
Blessed are we who say, okay!
but God, you’re going to need
to help me wake up, the music,
the movement and the color of living,
The wonder of the lily,
the mystery and power of the tiniest seed,
cracked open, doing what it was always destined to do.
Bloom.
Blessed are we who say, wake me too God, I’m awake.
“Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table.
Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.” ―Diane Ackerman
Put yourself where love and beauty can reach you.
That’s the summer for you.
~ Kate Bowler, "A Blessing for Waking up to Summer"
This week we pray for:
Amanda Hilty
Continued prayers for Amanda who is in a 3-week training in California to get a guide dog.
Lucy Ewing, Erica Ewing's mom
Continued prayers for healing for Lucy, who is recovering from a hip surgery at Wooster Community Hospital (room 408).
John, friend of Julie Douglass-Gillespie
Prayers for comfort and peace for John whose longtime partner Russell died of cancer last week.
Deb Hostettler
Continued prayers for Deb, who is hoping to regain her appetite and energy following an adjustment in her medication to reduce side effects.
Barbara Mykkanen
Continued prayers for Barb as she participates in a study to help others with similar cancer diagnosis.
We pray for
- all those struggling with stressful situations that weary the heart;
- those facing ongoing recovery, pain management, and health issues;
- peace and a lasting end to violence and injustice;
- rest, time of replenishment with family, friends, in nature;
- as we marked World Refugee Day yesterday, we pray for all who are seeking safety, new life, new community across the world; we pray for wisdom, compassion for legislators on local, national and international level; for readiness to enact legislation that removes obstacles and creates viable channels toward a new life;
- for the children and activity leaders at the Open Arms Summer;
- in gratitude for ministry partners in the Muskingum Valley Presbytery. Last night we approved the unification of First and United Presbyterian Churches in Cambridge, Ohio to become Cambridge Presbyterian Church. They were not struggling congregation; rather they decided that instead of being two communities across the street from each other to join their gifts into one mission.
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