| Prayers for Mother's Day, May 13, 2007 |
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| God of Sarah, Rebekah, and Rachel, God of Eve, Elizabeth, and Mary. On this Mother's Day, we ask that you shine your face upon the mothers. We ask that you come among us as we join together to worship, to pray, and to celebrate you and your creation. We ask these things in your Son's name. Amen. Holy creator, We ask for the forgiveness that a mother can give. We ask for the peace, the love, and the personal attention that a mother gives. Dear God, we pray for all who are God's people through faith in Christ, and for all of God's creation. We pray for the Church throughout the world, that every heart may be sanctified, that all the baptized may avoid evil and walking in the light, lead holy and righteous lives. We pray for our nation, that our heavenly Father would provide us with trustworthy leaders, and for our citizens, that we may be a people at peace with one another and a blessing to the other nations of the earth. We pray for our military, that God will shield them from physical harm and deliver them from evil – that they may honorably represent our nation. We pray for their mothers, that they are comforted during this difficult time. We pray for our Commonwealth, 400 years old today. May Virginia continue to lead the nation and serve as a roll model in so many ways. We continue to pray for our fellow Virginians in the Virginia Tech community. We pray for our city, and the children without mothers. We pray for the mothers who have lost children and grand children. Lord God, hear us now, as we bring our concerns to you. Hear us as we pray for our families and our care-givers. We pray for our community here, that you will comfort the lonely and ease the suffering of those in pain. Dear Lord, please search our hearts and hear our prayers, both spoken and unspoken, we give them up to you, now. . . . . Dear Lord, we ask that you please extend your comfort and blessings to those mentioned, and those who's names remain unspoken. We pray for all mothers on this Mother's Day, that they would rejoice in their glorious vocation of self-giving love; that those without children would give thanks to God for their own mothers; and that every mother's home be a place of God's love and peace. On this spring day, we pray for the graduates and the gardeners. We rejoice over new growth and new beginnings. We thank you for grace, and for the saving knowledge that although Jesus has ascended into heaven, He is with us in His Holy Spirit. Dear God, these prayers we raise to you with confidence that you will hear us and respond in steadfast love. We ask these things in your son's name, as we pray the prayer he taught us . . . Our Father, who art in heaven – |
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