Dec 23, 2014 | Tuesday Prayers
Dear God, It is so hard for us not to be anxious, We worry about work and money, about food and health, about weather and crops, about war and politics, about loving and being loved. Show us how perfect love casts out fear. –Monica...
Dec 16, 2014 | Tuesday Prayers
Dear Lord, Please give me . . . A few friends who understand me and yet remain my friends, A work to do that has real value, without which the world would feel poorer. A mind unafraid to travel even though the trail be not blazed, An understanding heart . . . A sense...
Dec 9, 2014 | Tuesday Prayers
May the God of mercy, who is well acquainted with grief, bless us with gentle comfort and healing for our sorrows. Amen. — Marchiene Vroon Rienstra
Nov 25, 2014 | Tuesday Prayers
Lord, For the ways in which you’ve graced my life this week, I give you thanks and praise. I especially thank you for growing my garden and my life. Give me the strength and wisdom to be faithful in tending both my outer and inner gardens. Keep me from doing...
Nov 18, 2014 | Tuesday Prayers
O God, we pray this day for all who have a song they cannot sing, for all who have a burden they cannot bear, for all who live in chains they cannot break, for all who wander homeless and cannot return, for those who are sick, and those who tend them, for those who...
Nov 11, 2014 | Tuesday Prayers
We thank Thee, Lord for Memory To live again the past; That in remembering bygone days The fruits of joy shall last. But for the power to forget We thank Thee even more: The stings, the slights, the hurts, the wounds, Can never hurt us more. –Margaret H....