Morning Prayer 🌄 Loving God, may Your Spirit help us to reframe our perspective and how we view our day so that we see the giftedness in the day as well all that is good. Help us to receive the graces that come our way and to allow a center of gratitude to be formed within. Amen

Evening Prayer: Loving God, we give thanks for Your guiding and sustaining grace that brought us through this week. May Your Light, Mercy, and Love be with those who are holding lingering stress, strain, and challenges. May Your peace grant them rest and replenishment. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, may Your Spirit go with us through this day and grant us tender hearts and soft souls that remain open and receptive to joy, gratitude, and wonder. Guard our hearts from the cynicism and grumbling that can corrode away our compassion and peace. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, grant us this evening the rest our soul needs and dissolve away the cynicism and indifference that has built up over our hearts and created a hardness. May Your grace tender our hearts and keep us open to wonder, awe, hope, love, and beauty. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, as we move into this new day the day often comes rushing at us. Help us to move in and through it with a sense of intention, focus, purpose, and resolve. Grant us the presence we need in order to think clearly, act decisively, and move patiently. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, we give to You this evening our tiredness and weariness... • weary from the day • weary from the world's chaos • weary from caring • weary from hoping • weary from stressing May Your peace and grace bring replenishment for our weariness. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, help us to live into this day with grace, patience, and a willingness to let the day unfold rather than force the events of the day. Help us to hold our plans lightly and to welcome disruptions as opportunities for growth. Help us to be present. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, may Your Spirit help to calm our souls this evening from all that caused our spirits to feel disjointed today. Help our thinking and reacting to slow down so we can reflect and rest. Help us to regain perspective so we can rest this evening. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, grant us the focus we need today to attend to what is most important as well as living this day at a sustainable pace. Help us to not lose a sense of presence but to be present to all that is going on around us and within us. Guide us this day. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, may we trust that the seeds of goodness we were able to plant and sow today will take root and flourish in the places that need to be encouraged by goodness. May the seeds of peace planted by others take root and provide a harvest of justice. Amen.

Morning Prayer 🌄 Loving God, we welcome Your guidance and wisdom as we begin this new week. We welcome Your sustaining grace and strength as we lean into our responsibilities. We welcome Your deep Presence that keeps us grounded in Your goodness and mercy. We welcome Love. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, we're not feeling prepared for the new week and we still feel tired and Monday already feels overwhelming and we wish we had one more day in the weekend...but we know and trust You will go with us and be with us and will support us and that helps. Amen

Morning Prayer: Loving God, may this day help us to reorient our lives and intentions back around Your intentions and purposes. May we regain perspective on our lives and how we want to show up this coming week. May Your intentions and purposes form and shape our hearts. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, may Your Spirit grant us a spaciousness within our soul that enables us to get a clearer sense of our circumstances and our own life. Grant us a renewed vision of Your grace and goodness that restores to us a sense of hope, energy, and aliveness. Amen.

Morning Prayer 🌄 Loving God, may the weekend offer us a different pace and rhythm to be able to reflect and become aware of what we need to see and know. May we receive and welcome the wisdom of Your Spirit that opens up to us areas of our life we have missed or avoided. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, may Your Spirit keep hope alive in our hearts and an aliveness present in our souls. May Your Spirit grant us rest, peace, and calm and help us to release this day into Your care. Watch over us as we sleep and be with those we cherish and love. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, on this day in which we are invited to "never forget", may we never forget the heroism and courage of first responders and may we never forget the loss of innocent lives. May we also never forget the power of Your forgiveness to heal our world. Amen

Evening Prayer: Loving God, may Your grace and mercy heal Your creation of its divisions and brokenness and suffering. May we be conduits of Your grace and mercy so that our actions and presence can be healing. Mend our brokenness so that we might become wounded healers. Amen.

Morning Prayer 🌄 Loving God, may we discover within us a peace that ripples outward and offers peace to those around us. May we welcome Your peace to heal our own fragmented life so we are able to help heal our fragmented world. May Your peace be our peace as peacebuilders. Amen

Evening Prayer (a little late since we just got home from a west coast trip) - Loving God, I give thanks that it's possible to visit kids and grandkids even when they live miles away. Time with them is all my soul needs and my heart is full. Cherish dear ones in your life. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, may the trips we take and the miles we travel remind us of our common humanity and the beauty found in diversity. May we be willing to take that inward journey to the heart and discover the core and center of who we are. May life be a journey. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, may Your grace and Spirit gather up all the fragmented pieces of our soul that are often the result of a fragmented world. Help us to gather up all the fragmented parts of our self and gather them around Your love at the center of our being. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, we look forward to this new week with its opportunities and unrealized potential. We give thanks for the promise of Your grace that will sustain and strengthen us. We give thanks for life and the gift of each day. Help us to steward it well. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, we give thanks for bringing us through this day. We give thanks for moments of joy and laughter. We give thanks for moments of peace and renewal. We give thanks for moments that reminded us of the need to be persons of mercy, justice, and love. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, we give thanks that You are able to take our gifts and potential and able to help craft meaningful work through our lives. Help us to lift up the dignity of work and to remember we can be co-creators with You of a flourishing world and creation. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, as we finish this day may we begin to turn towards the new week ahead. May we ready ourselves by welcoming the guidance of Your Spirit and the Wisdom that comes from Your Light. May we look forward to opportunities to serve and share our gifts. Amen.

Morning Prayer: Loving God, restore to our souls today that which often dissipates through the week. Restore to us a heart of hope. Restore to us a sense of joy. Restore to us the capacity to love. Restore to us a deep sense of purpose. Restore to us the gift of wonder. Amen.

Evening Prayer: Loving God, may Your grace gift us with those moments where we are quiet of heart and calm of mind. Quiet the anxiousness in our soul and the restlessness in our heart so that we may be able to see more clearly the reality of Your care over our circumstances. Amen

Morning Prayer: Loving God, we welcome the gift of this day and the fullness of its potential. We welcome the opportunities to grow that this day will offer us. We welcome all the unexpected moments realizing that no day is perfect and neither are we. We welcome this day. Amen.

Morning Prayer 🌄 Loving God, we give thanks for a night of rest and welcome Your peace as we go through this day. May the rest from last night extend into our day and help us to live this day with a sense of calm and quietness of heart and soul. Help us to be at peace. Amen.