Prayer for Others: Open Us
Here’s a prayer
of intercession written by Jenny Adams on the Starters for Sunday website.
Prayers of the People
Servant God,
be with those
who are not seen and heard in the world,
because of
their gender or age; their caste or race;
their sexuality
or lifestyle; their poverty or history.
Open our ears
and eyes, to hear and see all people as yours.
God of little
children,
be with all
children, wherever they live,
whoever their
parents are, whatever their needs,
that they would
all be welcomed and nourished,
enabled to be
all you want them to be.
Open our hearts
and arms, to welcome all your children.
God of love,
be with all who
live with fear,
fear of saying
the wrong thing, fear of being labelled,
fear of
themselves or others, fear of you.
Open us all to
your endless love, that it might drive out fear.
Teacher God,
be with us all,
as we struggle to make sense of your world and your word,
as your church,
in our communities, as your disciples.
Open our minds
and hearts, to learn from you.
God of all,
Father, Son and
Spirit,
hear our
prayers, spoken and unspoken,
offered from
the darkness and hope of our hearts,
Amen
~ written by
Jenny Adams and posted on the Church of Scotland’s Starters for Sunday website. http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/
