Pause for Prayer: FRIDAY 9/6

 

I'm reaching for the heavens, Lord,
    lifting up my hands in prayer

 and in my hands I'm lifting up

    some folks who really need your help...

You already know who they are, Lord,

    but it helps me to name them in my heart, 

helps me trust you hear my prayer

    and hold in your heart

        the very ones I hold in mine...

I lift up family and friends who are sick, Lord:
    who've had or will have surgery,

    who are in distress and live with pain,

    who are beginning needed treatment,

    who are awaiting test results

        and don't know yet how things will go...

I lift up those who live in fear, 

    who are worried and anxious,

    whose nights are long and sleepless,

        precisely when they need their rest...

 

I lift up those who tend the sick,

day by day by day, Lord:

    make their minds sharp,

    their diagnoses accurate,

    their manner honest and gentle,

    their advice informed and trustworthy,

    their skills sharp and practiced...

 

I'm reaching for the heavens, Lord,
    lifting up my hands in prayer

and in my hands I'm lifting up

    some folks who really need your help...

 

Hold them, help them,

    heal and mend them,

        body and soul, inside-out;

fill their hearts with hope, trusting

    that whatever comes their way

you'll be at their side, Lord,

    their Divine Physician,

with your medicine of mercy,

    grace and peace...

 

Amen. 

 

Psalm 121 by Ellie Holcomb

 

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