WEDNESDAY

RESPONDING

Pray for the coming day. Be attentive to what you struggle with, where you face challenge, difficulty, experience weakness, darkness, uncertainty—how it affects you personally, and your ministry. Bring your struggle to God. Pray for God’s servants who are serving in challenging and difficult places this day, especially for _____________________.

Lord Christ,

You see us sometimes strangers on the earth, taken aback by the violence, by the harshness of oppositions.

You are with us, sending out a gentle breeze on the dry ground of our doubts, shining your light in the dark corners of our clay vessels where fear and weakness rob us of faith and peace.

Help us to know your presence in all our struggle. Continue to make us bearers of peace and reconciliation.

*based on a prayer by Brother Roger of Taize. Life from Within. Geoffrey Chapman Mowbray, 1990. 22.

INTERCESSION

Pray for the coming day, and for your neighbor.

Lord Jesus,
Help me this day to see persons as you see them.
Open the eyes of my soul to recognize myself as a neighbor to the
people in whose path you place me this day, near and far.
Open the doors of my heart and pour out your love and compassion,
and so make me generous with my time, my money, my attentiveness, and
hospitality.

Help me to love as you love.

Amen.

CLOSING PRAYER

Lord Jesus Christ,
You call us to come
To be with you.

By your Spirit help me
To see you,
To hear you,
To receive your Spirit,
To be led by your Spirit.

Amen