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​Household Prayers
Prayer is a spiritual exercise that helps build a personal relationship with God. It is also an opportunity to both speak with and listen to God.  

Sometimes the words come naturally, sometimes they don't. For the times when they don't, you can find prayers here that you can use. They are related to our Sunday Scripture readings.

Not every prayer will resonate with every person every week. But when they do, they can help each of us build a life of meaning and purpose in relationship with God.

Week of October 2, 2022
Household Prayer: Morning
Glorious God, I praise you.  I praise you for who you are – loving, merciful, powerful, and just.  I praise you for the ways you act in creation – creating beauty, bringing freedom, making peace, offering healing.  Thank you for opportunities I will have today to glorify you in my words and actions.
Thank you for this very day in which I am able to enjoy you by participating in your activity in the world.  I pray that the enmity between people and nations may give way to true communion.  In the name of Christ, the great Reconciler, I pray. Amen. 

Household Prayer: Evening
Loving God, I end this day as I began it – in praise of you.  Thank you for including me in your great circle of love and care.  Thank you for being with us always.  Thank you, too, for calling me to love others and to treat everyone as my neighbor.  Help me to notice those whose cries for mercy so often go unheard or unanswered, for I am joined to them by being joined to you.  I pray in awe of the life you have given me through faith in Jesus Christ. Amen.

Questions for Reflection
The Greek word for “Eucharist”—eucharistia—means thanksgiving and is used in Luke 17:16 to describe the Samaritan’s thankful response of faith to Jesus, who had mercy on him. To live a “eucharistic life,” then, is to live a life of thanksgiving to God. 
What new habits or practices might cultivate in you a more eucharistic life?

The Morning & Evening Prayer and Question for Reflection are reprinted by permission of Westminster John Knox Press from Feasting on the Word® Worship Companion. Copyright 2014

Prayers reprinted by permission of Westminster John Knox Press from
Feasting on the Word ® Worship Companion. Copyright 2013.