Prayers of the People: October 2024

Oct 6, 2024

PRAYER FOR OUR WORLD

God, we entrust and desperately seek you to continue to move mountains and provide peace and security to the billions of people on this planet we call Earth who do not know peace, who are experiencing insecurity in real terms, and who are blameless for not having their basic needs met. Holy Spirit, your limitless and endless grace and mercy are real and boundless. While we as humans lack the ability to understand how atrocities and suffering can exist while you are the great composer, we always have hope for comfort and unity among all people and nations. Thank you for showing us we are all your children, and are innately capable of having our hearts softened, provide compassion for others, and live our lives in love. We ask, through your Spirit, that suffering souls shall find solace and escape the evil in this world. In your name we pray.

PRAYER FOR OUR COMMUNITY

Most High, you are the glue of all humans who are innately connected in this holy community and in the communities we live and participate in. We pray that we act as servants and stewards to all people we know, encounter, and actively consider those we may see but overlook. You have shown our community how to exemplify and manifest this in the West 7th neighborhood, and we pray that we continue our mission in the Rondo area which has a huge need for unity and service. We pray that we may proceed with leaving this building and community better than we entered it, and integrate into the Rondo community with dignity and humility. In your name we pray.

PRAYER FOR OUR LIVES

Holy Spirit, we seek, knock, and ask that through you we may see and feel the flesh of your true being. We realize that we will never be able to comprehend you, but your essence is palatable and tangible in our lives, primarily through other beings. God, we pray that we will come to understand our lives to be lived through the spiritual realm which manifests in this material world. We come as individuals with very unique skills, talents, trials, mistakes, and flaws. Those very aspect that define us as perfectly imperfect.

We pray that you would give us eyes to see and ears to hear. Not only to hear, but more specifically to listen to the soft spoken voice audibly heard through our brothers and sisters. I pray for our very lives to not overcome, but to actively sit with the pangs in our hearts and praise you in gratitude for what we do have. In this moment, we are fundamentally okay. I pray we may be where our feet are. In your name we pray.

- read by Mitchell Weissman

- written by Mitchell Weissman

“Prayers of the People” music by The Brilliance

Music; Evan Wickham Music; Remaining portion is unaffiliated

Performed by Halle Hanson