Daily Prayer for Peace
Daily Prayer for Peace
1:00 p.m.

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Gathering in Silence
Call to Prayer
Lighting of Candle

Invitation
  We welcome you today, and greet you in the name of God who calls us to worship.
Each day in this Temple dedicated to the pursuit of peace, we pray to God for peace in our world. In addition, each day we pray for a different country.

Today we will remember the people of Estonia in our prayers. Located in Eastern Europe, Estonia was the smallest in population of the former Soviet republics. It was the first to push for autonomy and gained its freedom in 1991. Estonia joined both the European Union and NATO in 1994. Oil shale accounts for 90 percent of Estonia's domestic fuel, but environmental concerns have prompted the country to explore sources of electric power that are less damaging to the environment.

God, who is the giver of all, is the creator of light and goodness that we worship and praise today as we pray for peace in our world.
 
Scripture Reading: Romans 14:17-18 INT
  For the kingdom of God is a matter not of eating and drinking, but of justice, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. If we all serve Christ this way, we will be pleasing to God and respected by our sisters and brothers.
 

Prayer for Peace by Clifford Carlson, Independence, Missouri
  O God, our Creator,

We come again to pray for peace. Help us to be sensitive to your Spirit as it calls us to be instruments of peace making.

May we be touched by an understanding of what you are calling us to do.

We feel so inadequate as we try to bring peace to persons or communities in conflict. We even sense the lack of peace within ourselves.

However, we know you continue to ask us to be instruments of peace in places where we find ourselves. You want us to cause peace to grow in places where we are.

We need your insight as we try to do your will, as we try to let peace grow and as we give you the honor and the glory.

Help us to envision how we can be peacemakers.

We pray in Jesus name. Amen
 

Hymn -  We Thank Thee, God, for Eyes to See - Hymns of the Saints #465
 
Prayers of the People
Please join us now, praying the Prayers of the People. During the moments of silence, you are invited to pray silently or meditate.
  Let us join in common confession of our sins. For the arrogance of our pride of race, of nation, and of class, by which we put down others not of our kind and thus break the community of the human family, we ask forgiveness.
The People Pray in Silence
  We ask your watch care and blessing for the people of Estonia. Continue to bless their activities to foster peace in all the world we ask.
The People Pray in Silence
  We also ask your blessing and care for the concerns of people gathered here today. Hear us we pray.
The People Pray in Silence
  We ask for your guidance as we see the needs and injustices in our families, our communities, and our world. Help as we seek to do your will to be courageous peacemakers.
The People Pray in Silence
  Please use this space to pray for any current concern or event in our community, city, state, nation or world that you feel needs to be held up to God for prayerful consideration.
The People Pray in Silence
  In the name of the Prince of Peace we pray. Amen.
 
Sending Forth
  We conclude our service today with ministry of music. We invite you to remain to pray or meditate in the quiet of this place for as long as you may wish.

Let us hold our tongues when it would hurt another. Let us reserve judgement when our own selfish interests would prevail. Let us promote justice among our families, our communities, all nations and peoples of the earth. The God of light and knowledge will bless our efforts. Let us go and be peacemakers.
 
Ministry of Music