Pause for Prayer: FRIDAY 1/3

 

It's a new month, Lord, a new year

and a new beginning! 

 

We all need new beginnings in different ways

    and so I pray...

I pray today for all who've waited,
who've longed and hungered for a new year,

eager to see 2024 fade away

     - which I'm fairly certain may be most of us...

I pray for those who are more than ready
to move beyond the hurt and disappointment,

    the fear and suffering, 

    the discord, animosity and ill will
    and the grief and burdens of the year just past...

I pray for those who desire a new beginning,

who pray for new grace to look afresh 

at everyone and everything…

I pray for the grace we all need, Lord,

    to begin again, to trust again, to try again

    to hope again 

        in you and in your gracious love for us…

I pray this morning for those who are stuck, Lord,

who’ve lost the energy, the courage, the desire
to look ahead to a new beginning...

I pray for those who’ve lost a sense

of where one day ends and another begins...

I pray for those so tired of yesterday

they’ve lost a taste for tomorrow…

I pray for the grace we all need, Lord,

    to begin again, to trust again, to try again

    to hope again 

        in you and in your gracious love for us…

And I pray, Lord, for those too tired
to mark the beauty of a rising sun,
the solace of a silvery moon…

I pray for those weighed down 

    by worries, fears and problems;

those weak from illness

    and longing for healing;
and those burdened by too much work

    and too little time to do it…

I pray for those whose days and nights run together,
keeping them from rest and relaxation...

I pray for the grace we all need, Lord,

    to begin again, to trust again, to try again

    to hope again 

        in you and in your gracious love for us…

And I pray, Lord, for all who long to feel

    the gentle way you hold us when we’re weary;

I pray you strengthen us in our weakness
    and carry us from day to day...

I pray for those who need to see
how faithfully you walk with us: 
    day by day, week by week,
        through every season, all year long...

I pray for those who wait your healing
of last year's loss and grief;
    who wait the gift of your gentle presence,
    who wait your peace in the year that's just begun... 

I pray for the grace we all need, Lord,

    to begin again, to trust again, to try again

    to hope again 

        in you and in your gracious love for us…

Send your Spirit upon us, Lord,
    to open our minds and hearts

        to all you'll offer in this new year, 2025...

May this truly be a year of grace:

    may your mercy be our healing 
        and your healing be our hope…

I pray for the grace we all need, Lord,

    to begin again, to trust again, to try again

    to hope again 

        in you and in your gracious love for us…

Amen. 

 

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