Saturday, October 21, 2023

In your perfect timing, you restore our health and hope. We place all hope in you that you will always guide and protect us. Give us peace, as we journey on your Ancient Path. Give us faith to step forward even as the earth gives way to your heavenly glory.

Praise to you, Loving Yahweh, your ways are not our ways. Thank you for answering our heart’s desire; even when we do not know what we are desiring. Thank you for taking the initiative to reveal yourself to us. May we look to you.

Loving Yahweh, you care for us and call us to care for those who you have entrusted to us. With eager hearts, we consider it joy to watch over and care for others. We humble ourselves, so we live in harmony and unity within your community. Peace be with your creation.

We praise you for your presence with us. Thank you for mentors, Knowledge Keepers, Elders, and Water Carriers in our community, who check in on us and encourage us. We recognize you in all of them. Thank you for our ancestors who have gone before us and now cheer us on.

Purify us, LORD. When we walk through the fire, journey with us and teach us your perfect ways. Present us as holy, unharmed, and chosen by you, so all who see and hear will know that you are God, the Creator of all things.

We place our trust in you. Hear our prayers, and use them as blessings for others. When you release us from our earthly vessels, carry us to the resting place of our ancestors, so we will be remembered as the stars and clouds. When others look up, let them remember your goodness and know that you are our God.