Each Sunday morning, bridging our informal gathering time, during which we share from our lives, and our formal worship time, a different person, usually from Seekers, offers a prayer for peace and justice. Each person chooses what to say, with no prompting or guidance from the coordinator other than to be brief, prayerful and focused on peace and justice. On this page, we offer the text of some of those prayers.
A Prayer for the People of Palestine and Gaza and so many others
Praying for Peace and Justice on December 21, 2025 Let us pray. We pray as Seekers Church for the coming of the one whose name Emanuel means “God with us.” We pray with the people of Palestine and Gaza “Ya Rabbal Salam. Lord of Peace, rain peace upon us. Lord of Peace, fill our land with peace.” Pray with me. Ya Rabbal Salam. Ya Rabbal Salam. We pray for peace, we pray for justice, we pray that in future years we will not need to put other Christ Children within rubble in our front window, that they will no longer…
A Prayer Offering a Confession of Faith
Praying for Peace and Justice on December 14, 2025 Holy One, hear our confession of faith: 1. Commandment to Love: We confess that God commands us to love with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves (Deuteronomy 6.5, Mathew 22:36-40; Mark12:30-31). We reject the falsehood that personal comfort or communal safety can be secured through seclusion, scapegoating, or persecution of others. God’s universal love embraces all creation and honors the God-given dignity of all people, no matter who they are or where they are from. 2. Love of Neighbor: We confess the truth…
A Prayer for Just Policies to Make Our Roads Safe
Praying for Peace and Justice on November 16, 2025 Heavenly Parent, Teacher, Source of All Wisdom, you have given humans your great gift of creativity. Help us to use it with joy and abandon, while also being mindful that what we create can do harm as well as good, and it’s our responsibility to fix that harm. This weekend is a weekend of remembrance for all those killed or injured by cars on our roads. We remember Summer Lim and James Anderson, local youth kill this year while walking or biking to or from school, as well as others. We…
A Prayer of Gratitude for Those Who Organize to Share Abundance
Praying for Peace and Justice on November 9, 2025 Dear God, your word and spirit have taught millions across the centuries to love our neighbors. You taught us through vision, the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament as well as many other faith traditions that lives, all lives, will be supported by organizing the means to share abundance where it is absent. We pray that your support will continue to feed us with love, gratitude, faith and hope so that we continue to pursue your vision. May Peace and Justice prevail! Amen. Background For the Peace and Justice prayer this morning,…
A Prayer to Know the Love, Beauty, Awe and Wonder that God intends for us
Praying for Peace and Justice on October 26, 2025 Holy Creator, in this time of fear and feeling like the ground we stand on is crumbling beneath our feet, we struggle to know what is ours to do to make sure that our children and the generations that follow are imbued with the love, beauty, and sense of awe and wonder that you intend for all. To my beloved community I offer as prayer Crys Matthews’ inspirations for her song Battle Hymn for an Army of Lovers from six muses: Her mom reminded her that she had seen many presidents…