Good Morning, God,
Lord, as we end this week, there are so many headlines for which we need to pray, some very serious, some very personal, all with a need of some kind from you in your heaven. So, this prayer for the headlines today cannot name just one need, but we want to claim your presence, your strengths, your all-knowing for what is needed.
We want to claim your promise that when we do not know exactly for what and how to pray, your Holy Spirit prays for us with ways that words cannot express, and when you search our hearts, you hear the Spirit's words for our specific needs.
Generally, though, we pray:
Lord, make us instruments of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let us so love.
Where there is injury pardon.
Where there is doubt faith.
Where there is despair hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness, joy.
God, grant that we may not seek so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.
In Jesus's name, Amen.
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