Monday, September 1, 2008

Labor Day Prayer

With confidence in God’s love for us, let us pray:

Look kindly on your servants, O Lord, our God.

You have called some to serve by work and some to serve by waiting: ‑ grant just working conditions to laborers and hope to the unemployed.

Look kindly on your servants, O Lord, our God.

You have called some to serve in public ways and some to serve in the privacy of home: ‑ keep us all faithful to the tasks you have given us.

Look kindly on your servants, O Lord, our God.

You have called some to serve in religious ministries and some to serve in the secular world: ‑ fix our focus on the Gospel wherever we serve.

Look kindly on your servants, O Lord, our God.

You have called some to serve in active ways and some to serve by suffering: ‑ sustain us all in faith, hope, and love.

Look kindly on your servants, O Lord, our God.

O God, the giver of all good gifts, you give the gift of work as blessing and as task.

In whatever work you have given us to do, small or great, grant that we may serve with love and praise with joy, through Christ our Lord.  Amen

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