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A Collect to Be Satisfied by True Good
God of provision, caretaker of your creation, we often seek you for your provision and not for yourself. Forgive us our shallow hearts…
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A Collect for Rescue from our Fear
Lord of heaven and earth, at whose command the wind and waves obey, calm our fears by making your presence known, that we would not…
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A Collect for Patience in Our Limited Understanding
Lord Jesus, humble king, be patient with us as we do not grasp your ways. Bear with our smallness that when we err, you would have mercy…
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A Collect for Our Offerings to be Multiplied
Lord of creation, who knows no limitations, we offer you so little. Multiply what we give in our smallness and finitude and make of it…
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A Collect for Being Found
Good shepherd, who seeks out those who are outside of the fold, we are too often lost and straying, uncertain of ourselves and our world….
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A Collect to Give Thanks for God’s Gifts
Jehovah Jirah, who provides for your people with great care, let us not forget to give you thanks for the gifts you have given, that we…
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A Collect to Offer Whatever We Can to God
God of the miraculous, who does great things with small offerings, let us not despise the little we have to offer you, but encourage us…
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A Collect to Accept God’s Testing
All-knowing Father, who sees into our hearts and knows our minds, test us and stretch us to draw us beyond ourselves, that we would…
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A Collect to Receive and Proclaim God’s Peace
Lord Jesus, in whom we find life as it was intended, as you have proclaimed peace to us all, give us grace to receive that peace and to…
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A Collect for Reconciliation
Lord Jesus Christ, the bridge between divine and created, teach us to break down the walls that separate us and keep us hostile to one…