#MorningPrayer
Inspire us, Lord,
in our appreciation
of all that blesses us,
and encourage us
in our sharing
of those blessings
with others;
may we sow
the seeds of your love
joyfully and liberally,
rejoicing always
in our capacity
to share generously
in the work
of your kingdom.
#MorningPrayer
Fill us, Lord, with eagerness
for the wellbeing of each other,
as we seek to serve and nurture
good community in your love.
Give us a generosity of spirit
and generosity in giving
of what we are and what we have,
that we may share
your blessings and love,
with all.
#MorningPrayer
Open our eyes,
hearts and minds
to the intrinsic value
of each person, Lord,
for all bear your image,
all are held in your love.
Steer us away
from treating others
as objects to be used,
rather than neighbours
to be loved;
may we live
the mutuality
of your kingdom.
#MorningPrayer
Lord, instil in us
a desire for community,
for walking and working together,
sharing in and showing forth your love,
investing in the relationship
you call us to inhabit:
one human family
made in your image,
sustained by your grace,
drawn by the beat of your heart.
#MorningPrayer
Keep us ever true to the love
in which you hold us, Lord;
may our lives be centred
on embracing, sharing
and living out that love
for the blessing of all people
and all the world.
Give us the strength and stamina
to hold true to your love,
whatever each day brings.
#MorningPrayer
You call us, Lord,
to engage in your work of love;
to choose to offer
the blessings of your grace:
welcome, hospitality, and hope;
peace, justice, and mercy;
compassion, comfort, and care;
stewardship, surety, and service;
and to honour your image,
in every person.
#MorningPrayer
Make manifest in us, Lord,
the new creation of your kingdom,
the new life of your resurrection,
the new hope of your vision.
May your spirit of reconciliation,
forgiveness, healing, and peace
flow in us and through us;
make us ambassadors
of your love and blessing.
#MorningPrayer
Even in the disciples
who walked with you, Lord,
there was a yearning
for status, for image.
Help us to seek
not our own image,
but yours in us and in others.
Open our hearts to see
what each can teach us
about your love;
help us live that love
for the good of all.
#MorningPrayer
Open our hearts,
our souls,
and our minds, Lord,
to apprehend
the glory of your love for us,
for our neighbour,
for all the world.
Open our lives,
not only to receive
the blessings of your love,
but to be channels, reflections,
examples of your love
for all to see.
#MorningPrayer
Let our lives, Lord, be so infused
with the fragrance of your love,
that the compassion in our living,
the character we embody,
the choices we adopt,
and the comfort we offer,
may fill our communities
and conversations
with the aroma of your
grace, peace, and hope.
#MorningPrayer
May the reality of new life
be the hallmark
of your people, Lord;
help us in all we are,
all we say, and all we do,
to shine with the joy
that filled Mary Magdalene,
your first apostle,
as she shared with eagerness
the news of your resurrection,
a new dawn for all.
#MorningPrayer
Fill us, Lord,
with your creative,
reconciling love.
In response to calls
to exploit and enhance
differences between
people and nations,
to divide communities
and cultures,
to attack or
discriminate against
that which seems other,
may we build peace
and offer hope.
#MorningPrayer
Keep our focus, Lord,
on the priorities of your kingdom;
let our words be words of love,
and our deeds be for building of peace.
Keep us from pursuing our own agenda
at others’ expense;
help us instead
be channels of your blessing,
offering hope to a world in need.
#MorningPrayer
Fill us, Lord,
with the gift
of your wisdom;
help us discern
that which is good,
and pursue it.
Inspire our passions
that we may
devote our energies
to those things
which build up
people and communities
in your love,
and grow in our commitment
to your way of peace.
#MorningPrayer
Nurture in us, Lord,
a deep appreciation
of our fellow pilgrims
in the journey of faith,
the way of your kingdom.
Open our eyes
and our hearts
to the blessings
of true community,
of knowing harmony
in our diversity,
and mutuality
in our living
of your love
for all.
#MorningPrayer
As we travel, Lord,
whether it be
a journey between places
or a journey through life,
give us an openness to one another
and a willingness to engage,
that we may build
community and connection
across difference and diversity,
showing and sharing your love with all.
#MorningPrayer
Fill us, Lord,
with confidence
in your love for us,
for all people,
and for all the world.
Inspire us to share that love
with all, near and far,
friend or stranger,
people we call “us”
and people we call “them”,
for all are one in your heart,
your eyes, your grace.
#MorningPrayer
Instil in us, Lord,
a love for one another
that echoes your love for us;
grow in us a yearning
for the wellbeing
of our neighbour,
for the good of all people.
Give us grace to know
that the person we least want
to see as our neighbour,
is our neighbour nonetheless.
#MorningPrayer
Lord, Instil in us
the gift of compassion,
that we may seek to know others
and the journeys they travel,
seek to understand
their stories and perspectives,
rather than making judgements
merely from what we know and see.
Give us the insight of your love,
your grace.
#MorningPrayer
Give us grace, Lord,
that we may be ready
to tell of our faith,
of your love for all people,
and of our response to your love
by offering our love
to you and to others.
Help us to manifest
the hope of your kingdom
in living out that love,
in word and deed,
for all.
#MorningPrayer
You create a world
of such abundance, Lord,
and fill us with such diversity,
that your creation may be
full of colour and contrast,
not merely shade and shadow.
Guide us to celebrate the ways
in which we complement each other,
rather than despising our differences.
#MorningPrayer
Teach us, Lord,
by the working of your Spirit
in us and among us,
the true meaning of love;
not merely the absence
of doing wrong to others,
nor the insistence that all do
what we think is right,
but the valuing
of each person as a person,
seeing your image in all.
#MorningPrayer
We lift to you, Lord,
our communities and nations.
We pray for good government,
prioritising the wellbeing of all,
driven by a commitment
to your justice and peace,
enabling and encouraging
generous relationships,
healing our divisions,
working for the common good.
#MorningPrayer
In a world that is too often
full of hatred and division,
selfishness and greed,
inspire us, Lord, to be different;
to seek harmony
and show hospitality,
to meet evil with goodness,
enmity with friendship,
fear with hope,
hate with love,
and to manifest
your peace.
#MorningPrayer
Hold us, Lord,
in the hope of your heart,
in the grace of your gospel,
to your call to the community
of your kingdom.
Inspire us each to play our part
in the way of your wisdom,
the promotion of your peace,
the fellowship of faithfulness
to the living of your love.
#MorningPrayer
Lord, in the weakness
of our fallen human nature
we fall too easily into the temptation
to blame on others
all that we do not like in the world,
hardening our hearts
against individuals
or whole groups of people.
Turn us to seek peace, not division,
love, not hate.
#MorningPrayer
You call us, Lord,
to offer hospitality,
and also to receive
the hospitality of others.
Give us grace
to meet people where they are,
to put ourselves into their space,
to offer real relationship
rather than dominance,
to seek not merely acquaintance,
but community.
#MorningPrayer
Lord, you invite us,
welcome us
and embrace us
as your family,
grafting us into
the life of your kingdom
that we may be rooted in
and fed by your love,
nourished and nurtured
in your way,
inspired by and immersed
in your call upon our lives
to be a blessing to all.
#MorningPrayer
In our human frailty, Lord,
we so often think peace
is the limiting of conflict,
and seek it by
separation and division,
by borders, barriers
and bombast.
You know peace is
wholeness, relationship,
unity in diversity and difference.
Guide us in your way and wisdom.
#MorningPrayer
Lord, your apostle Thomas
would not simply accept
the faith of others,
but only a faith
that was his own.
May we encounter
your risen presence
in our own lives,
the fruit of your cross
and empty tomb,
that your life and love
may flow in us,
through us,
and from us.
#MorningPrayer
Lord, give us an awareness
of your closeness to us,
your presence among us,
your dwelling within us,
day by day, hour by hour.
Teach us to embrace
your working in us,
to accept
the gift and grace
of your love
as you fit us
for your kingdom,
to put our trust in you.
#MorningPrayer
You fashion us, Lord, in your love,
as the potter fashions the clay;
you mould us day by day
as we seek your guidance
and your grace,
and allow ourselves to become
what you made us to be.
May our lives be ever open
to your loving creativity,
and to your work in us.
