Our Prayers for God’s World Today

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The Lord's Prayer

O God who is like a nurturing father or mother, ​
who resides in divine spaces near and far, ​
come and make your name holy among us.

May your realm of peace and justice be evermore established in your world, ​
and may your purposes be fulfilled. ​
Grant us what we need for today physically, emotionally, spiritually, relationally. ​
Forgive us for what we have done to or neglected to do for others, ​
as we are also called to forgive those who have engaged in such acts against us.

Help us to resist the temptation to give into fear, hatred, and scapegoating ​
which harms your creation and makes idols of our own prejudices, ​
and liberate us from thoughts and actions that demean and dehumanize that which
you love.

A transformed reality for which we have ongoing hope, ​
the power that you show in unconventional and unexpected ways, ​
and the glory that you are ever shining through what you have made​
are always and forever yours.​

Amen.

A Jeff Nelson paraphrase

Hymn - For the healing of the nations