This, Too, Is Prayer

 Prayers from Sunday, June 23, 2025

Some weeks the prayers come quiet and steady. Other weeks, they remind us just how wide the range of human life really is.

• Mark asked for prayers of comfort and healing for his sister-in-law in Santa Fe, who is facing troubling health issues without clear answers. We hold her in hope and care.

• Mark also lifted up his daughter, who is deep in the trenches of potty training her two-year-old. He asked for prayers for fortitude—and we offer them gladly.

This, too, is prayer: the unknown, the exhausting, the holy mess of it all.

Bridges of Mercy

 Prayers for the Week of July 7, 2025

This week we gathered in the soft light of shared presence, naming both hope and heartache. Our words became stepping-stones—small bridges of mercy that carry us from worry to witness, from fear to faithful care.

Prayers of the People

• Louise lifts up Don, asking for steady healing as he recovers from pneumonia and sepsis.

• Judy holds the families in Texas Hill Country close: parents still searching for missing children in the floods and the first responders who press on.

May these prayers remind us that compassion travels on every breath we offer. As we speak aloud what burdens our hearts, we also affirm that none of us walks alone.