week of 2/20/11

God who mourns with us,

We are weak. We are exhausted. We are pissed. We are broken and empty. We feebly stumble to offer these prayers to you. They hurt to even express, but we don't what else to do with them. Lord of everything, take our pain. Take our sickness. Take our prayers:

I'd like you to join in with me as I pray in thanksgiving for God's grace as I made it threw the first week of my new trial assignment. Pray for my enemies: known and unknown. God's blessings on them. Also thanksgiving for my daughter ----- and the continued growth in our relationship. Please pray for the health and healing of my grandmom ----- ------ and my friend ------ ------.

I pray for those who feel themselves enemies.

Thanks God. Just help me stay humble, help me remember I am not you. Also bless those who haven't got a place to call home, unloved, etc.

Oh Father, Please watch over my sister as she embarks on a new chapter in her life.

My 24 year old sister was just diagnosed with cancer.

For my father, my often enemy. Help me to have the courage to see him as the Lord sees him. Help me to show him abundant love in spite of everything and believe I can be loved as well.

Please pray for the School District of Philadelphia. Pray for the future of the youth and our city. Pray that the budget cuts do not prevent our children from growing. I fear they will not be loved, they will not be nourished, but instead treated like a number in an overwhelmed system. Please pray for the youth, they deserve better.

For me and my family. I have 95 days clean and sober. I would like your prayers for my sister and my nephew and my 6 month old niece -----. Thank you.

All mighty God, Please heal all wounds and restore the families fix what was once broken. Bring peace and tranquility where there is unrest. We ask in your son Jesus' name. Thank you, Amen.

Lord I pray for the ones I turn from, the ones I'm glad I don't see anymore, the ones I've called toxic. Forgive me Lord. If it is your desire, return them to me to love and understand.

------, ------, ------, -------, ------, ------, ------, ------, That lady in Florence. I don't want to hate anymore.

I pray for abundant life and abundant grace for myself and those who I have wronged or who may have wronged me.

A prayer of gratitude for a freely suitable gift.

Give me strength and patience to handle the new thing sin my life. Help me to keep trying to be someone I like. Please stop my neighborhood. Stop the fires, the lost homes and lives, be with the people in the ---------- Center that I no longer can call that place home. Remove the blackness from the wall and make those lives whole again. I love you. Thank you for loving me.

Please pray for the enemy in my head and the hurt in my head.

A prayer for all those helping me with my preparation and problems.

I am perfect. We are perfect. It is perfect. Thank you.

Peace...

Please Dear God build me back up in every way. Thank you for what miracles you have already performed. Please help me meet quality people.

Please pray for my friend ------ ------.

Dear G-D, My fears are still there. I leave myself in your hands. Thank you. Me.

You and I both know that I do little to resist the injustices of this world as you call me to do. While I do not have enough faith at this point to relinquish my plans to you, I pray for the desire to want to follow you more completely. Shake me awake with your love.

Please pray for the one I love that he may find peace with God. Please pray for me that I find comfort in Christ. Please pray for my family that we may come together and love one another.

I pray for my father and brother whose hearts are hardened toward those in my family who are in need -- my mother, my sister and me. I pray that my father and brother know God's love.

Please pray for my sister, ------. Please pray for my friend, ------. Please pray for my friend, ------. Please pray for me.

A prayer of concern for those trapped in the crackdown in Libya, Yemen, Iran, etc.

Lord, I pray for the enemy within myself - the one who has neglected me, who has broken my trust, who has, time and time again, pushed me into situations and decisions that bring me pain and hurt. I pray that part of myself might learn to let go, breathe deeply, acknowledge both pain and healing. Lord, help me forgive myself and help me forgive them. I am tired of that hurt weighing me down. I thank you for your ever-present love.

The energy present in this place is enough to sustain so many spirits. Help me to realize my role, to love myself and to have strength and give strength to those around me. Show a girl who made mistakes that is is okay and her path is not broken.

I pray for that bastard, my father. Let him know what it is like to love a daughter. I pray that I love myself first so that I may love others. Let me be strong and keep my burdens but go forward with an open heart.

Lord please grant me patience as a parent and a partner. Please grant me joy as your follower - whether or not life is easy - show me the path you with me to take and the understanding that it is your will, your path.

Lord, I feel ill at ease and am not feeling strong and well rested. Lord help me get over this as you have in the past. Lord, I ask that you comfort the ------ family in Texas in their time of loss. Watch over those who are hungry and for give me my sins. Lord, I ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.

My prayers this week - That I may allow God to write unto my ----, that my silly, yet crippling and defeating insecurities may be vanquished, that consequently I may allow all relationships to flourish, that I may have patience, unending for all people with hope and love and grace, but will grow quickly tired of injustices to the point of motion and movement and unrest for all that is wrong in the world. I pray for Egypt and for the careful victories achieved, for the United States and the consequences of our place in the world, on ourselves and on other people, other brothers and sisters of the world.

Please pray for my Aunt ------. She's very ill and I'm worried about her. I know they say her life is ending but please let her pass without pain. It's been difficult to handle schol and life with such sad thoughts, so please pray for me as well. I need peace.

Spirit, be present with these beloved children of God: ------, ------, ------ and ------, ------, --, ------, ------, my mom, ------ and ------, ------, ------, and so many others who are long gone from this place and those whose names I can't remember/ don't know. Thank you for your healing power.

God of forgiveness and healing,

You tell us to forgive, but we don't know how to forgive those who have caused us so much pain. We don't know how to even starting thinking about forgiving them. But we trust you. We trust that what you tell us is for our own good and for the good of others. Help us to want to forgive other... to forgive ourselves. Rip, tear, break, strip and cut unforgiveness out of our hearts. Help us to heal. For your glory.

Amen.