EGO

CALL TO WORSHIP

On this day of memory we gather to sing and to pray, we remember the past and look to the future.

All: On this day when the guns once fell silent, we come before you God, seeking Your peace.

On this day of hope in the face of terror, we come before you God, praying with all our hearts:

All: God our help in ages past, our hope for years to come.

Open our eyes and the eyes of the nations to find a different path through the disagreements of life in this world.

All: In this time of story, song, and prayer, may we be re-committed to being people of Peace, true peace.

May we catch a vision of how the world could live together. And so we echo the old prayers,

All: Make us channels of your peace. Let there be Peace on Earth and let it begin with us!

READING Job 38:1-7, 34-41

PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

Reconciling Christ, bless our efforts to bring about reconciliation.

All: Give us the strength to persevere without counting the hurts, and to find within ourselves the capacity to keep on loving.

Help us to conduct ourselves with dignity, moving from prayer to action, and from action back again into prayer.

All: Grant that we may be so grounded in your love, that our security is not threatened if we change our minds, or begin to see a better way to act.

Prayers of the People

Reconciling Christ, bless us and bless all who engage in the sacred work of envisioning new wholeness, and bringing people and nations together.…LORD’S PRAYER