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 Relief from Suffering for Children Around the World
Praying for Peace and Justice on August 3, 2025 Let us pray. Holy One, we are grateful for the wonderful children of this community, for their loving parents who feed, clothe and shelter them and provide them with opportunities to explore the wider world with curiosity. Seeing them thrive makes our hearts sing and at the same time break with anguish over the suffering of children all over the world who are lacking even the most basic food necessities, who are starving and homeless due to war or famine or famine caused by war. We pray that you will find…
A Prayer for Peace and Justice for Families
Praying for Peace and Justice on July 27, 2025 Today I offer this prayer for peace and justice for families. It is not easy to pin down what to pray for when the world is in such turmoil and so I am including a multitude of prayers for families that I know well or have been impacted by our current political crisis that I have been following as well as praying for my own family. Let us pray for peace for families experiencing anxiety because of medical procedures, especially dangerous surgeries on new born babies. We pray for families in despair…
A Prayer for Federal Government Workers and All Those around the World Who Rely on Them
Praying for Peace and Justice on July 13, 2025 The oral prayer focused on the value of the work of those who are employed by the federal government and whose jobs are now threatened by action of the Administration. It also raised up all the people around the entire world who rely on the work of federal employees for health care, for housing, for food production and safety, for air and water quality and so many other aspects of life.
A Prayer to Lift Us on Thy Lap of Universal Love
Praying for Peace and Justice on June 22, 2025 Heavenly Spirit, we are traveling by many right roads to Thine abode of light. Read more
A Prayer of Gratitude for Creativity Amidst Oppression
Praying for Peace and Justice on June 8, 2025 Gracious Living God, Each week we come beseeching you to give us the strength and courage to find what is ours to do to bring justice to and relieve the suffering of so many in our world – immigrants, poor people, people of color, queer people, people in war zones, those living in areas deeply affected by climate change, our non-human fellow creatures. The list goes on. Today we offer gratitude. Gratitude for all those who bring joy and creativity to us, not separate from the suffering but in the midst…