Prayer for Families and the Economy

Prayer for Families and the Economy

National Day of Prayer Community Gathering

May 5, 2022

Holy Loving God who is our Divine Parent,
We pray to you for our families:
For our families of blood,
our families of choice,
and above all, our families of love.

We pray that all of our homes, and the homes of our loved ones, would be
places of love
places of safety,
places of of acceptance
places of joy, of laughter, of flourishing.
We ask this of you, Holy God.
God who is our Divine Parent, Jesus our Brother, Spirit our Breath.
May all our homes be places where your love is freely given and graciously accepted.
Bless these families and these homes. May your blessings overflow.

We pray also and especially for those families and homes where this is not the case:
Where there is animosity instead of love,
Where there is violence instead of safety,
Where there is rejection instead of acceptance,
Where there is sorrow, tears, and family feels more like a cage than a place of flourishing:
God we pray: intervene.
May your Spirit bring resolution, restoration, and healing.
Even more boldly we pray: use us for this task.
May we be the hands of feet of Christ to our neighbors, showing them love and acceptance and what family can and should look like.

And lastly today we also pray for the economy, that undue hardship won’t fall upon our families and our homes.
We pray for a time of peace and a time of prospering.
We pray that each and every member of our community’s needs are met.
And again, we boldly pray, that where help is needed, you use us for that task:
To spur us toward generosity, to spur us toward caring for one another, for sharing the load.
We pray that those who need help may always find a hand reaching out to them.
We pray this is the hand of God and our hands, the very same.

We boldly pray all this in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.