Praying for the World

Praying for the World

Have a Minute? Food for Thought on the Journey of Faith

How do we actually pray for the world? So many news headlines, social media posts, news and notes from family and friends, and all the rest… they pierce our hearts, weigh down our souls, and take up a lot of rent-free space in our brains. How do we pray for it all? How do we hand it over to God?

After all, as the nineteenth-century poet and Archbishop of Dublin Richard Chenevix Trench observed, we must not “conceive of prayer as though it were an overcoming of God’s reluctance, when it is, in fact, a laying hold of [God’s] highest willingness.”

Here are a few beginning pointers from The Upper Room on how we might go about praying for the world:

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Cloverdale United Church recognizes that we worship, live, work, and play in traditional and unceded territories of Coast Salish peoples: primarily the Katzie, the Kwantlen, the Semiahmoo, the Snokomish, the Stolo, the Tsawwassen, and the Wsanec. We give thanks to and for them; we offer our respect to those ancestors who may be interred in this land. We seek to live with respect in this piece of Creation; we seek peace and justice among all who have called this land home.

Praying for the World

Praying for the World

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