Author: mgreen

Gracious Father, who desires that we live well and enjoy your creation, let us not despair at pains and losses and troubles that we endure when they lead us to your will and your ways. Teach us to be glad that through them we may draw closer to you, through your son Jesus Christ, who…

Spirit of counsel and wisdom, who guides us into your straight and righteous ways, show us where we impede our own selves, that we might know what to abandon and sever and present to Christ for healing and so save ourselves from suffering in this life and the next, through Jesus our savior who sent…

Almighty Father, who delights greatly in your little children, help us to protect and care for the weak and vulnerable, that we might not sin greatly against those who are most in need and might follow in your ways and footsteps, imitating our Father in heaven, through Christ our Redeemer, who reigns with you and…

Omnipotent God of all creation, who brought all things into being by your word yet remembers even the smallest sparrow, let us not despair of doing small things, trusting in the value of such acts of goodness in the world and knowing that you use all to bring goodness and light to your children, through…

Almighty God, Trinity of persons, cause the divisions among us to cease, that we would not hinder one another from doing the good that you have given each of us to do, but would trust in the multiplicities of your works and join one another in doing good for the world you love, through Christ…

Holy Spirit, our constant guide and source of wisdom, grant us the courage and desire to turn our wisdom into works, that our lives and not merely our words would give evidence of the goodness that you have given us, and we would offer that goodness to the world, through Christ Jesus our Lord who…

Lord Jesus Christ, who rejects none, help us to receive those of no importance to the world, that we might be instruments of your love to everyone who needs your acceptance, comfort, and grace, through you who delights in all your children and intercedes for us all before the Father in the Holy Spirit. Amen.…

Lord Jesus, who washed the feet of your followers, teach us to serve one another in love as you did, that we would not be enticed by status, but be ever motivated by love, through you who lives and reigns in goodness and intercession for all your children before the throne of the Father in…

Lord Jesus, who emptied yourself for our sake, grant us the courage and delight to humble ourselves, so that we might be elevated at the appropriate time and, in the meantime, learn to love others well, through you who was raised to the right hand of the Father in the Holy Spirit. Amen. ‘He sat…

Great teacher, who humbled yourself and took on the nature of a servant, guide our hearts to be unconcerned with our status and place, trusting that your great love embraces and accepts us all and that we are ever secure with you, who knows what it is to be low and to be raised above…