Oh Lord, hear our prayer, a refrain we pray so often it lives within our hearts,
“May your kingdom come, may your will be done,
On Earth as it is in Heaven.”
In this Advent season, we have the audacity to believe and trust that you are still at work in this world - still interrupting the brokenness, still healing, still teaching, still loving us. Help us to hear our call to be conduits of your hope, love, joy, and peace. Help us, as Howard Thurman writes “to come alive.”
Lord, hear our prayers.
May your kingdom come,
a banquet arranged by Jesus where all are welcomed and loved and where shame is replaced with grace,
a peace-filled world and in our communities,
a global community of love, grace, and peace where all are welcome and included, and all serve
the common good,
a place with no violence, or hatred or fear, but instead a place where everyone is loved and
welcomed and provided for,
where everyone is affected by just small acts of kindness;
May your will be done,
your will for unity - all people and creation together, living in the Presence of God,
a realm of justice, a realm where everyone belongs, a world where everyone matters, like Isaiah’s vision of sitting under fig trees with children playing,
where the poor and underserved in front of those who have much, face to face, the ones who have much standing in front of those underserved ready to help and seeking to understand their
plight, living together in abundance,
remembering always your will, and not just my/our will,
On Earth as it is in Heaven,
a safe space for all people,
children and parents actively involved in the kingdom,
to have the courage to do, not the easy things, but the right things, the God-called things, the lion and the lamb together,
that all may live in peace, security, and health,
that everyone from where we live are called together, gathering in the city center, seeking to
welcome one another in love, and understanding.
Lord, hear our prayers, we listen for your call. Amen.
