PRAYER TIME AND THE LORD'S PRAYER

Loving God - indeed this is a wonderful world, a world in which share with us the riches of fertile land, the resources of mountains and streams, the abundance of oceans and sky. We thank you for all the gifts you have given us on this planet we call Earth - for all the gifts you have called us to treasure, to husband, and to share. Grant O God that we may show respect to you and to the gifts you give by using them aright and by remembering from whence they have come and what purpose you have assigned to them..... Lord hear our prayer...

Generous God you have poured out riches of the Spirit as well as riches of earth, sea, and sky. We thank you for the power that sustains this universe and which is to be found in every human heart. We praise you for the love that creates beauty and for the care which creates tenderness and mercy and for the truth that creates justice and honor and glory. Grant, O God, that we may respond always to the urging of your Spirit and use the riches it provides to uphold truth and to show love and care for all people and for the creation itself.... Lord hear our prayer....

Giving God - there is much in our lives for which we are readily thankful - but there is also much in our lives that we have difficulty thanking you for - either because we do not see or acknowledge you in it - or because those things come to us as afflictions - as trials and tribulations. Help us, we pray, to see you in the ordinary things of life - that we may have the trust that we need to overcome in those things that test us our faith..... Lord hear our prayer.

Finally O God, you who are the mother and father of us all - hear the silent prayers of thanksgiving and of intercession that we make before you in our hearts as even now I name those names and those things that have been lifted up this day by these your people.... (BIDDING PRAYER)... Lord, hear our prayer...

We pray to you O God, in the name of Christ Jesus, the one who taught us to come to as one family, as your children, saying: "OUR FATHER