All God’s Children
Today, I want to offer something a little different. As I have over the past two days, I want to share with you a guided meditation as our message and prayer. (Tomorrow we’ll return to our more regular style messages.) When you have the time, I would encourage you to put all three of these messages together, to make one complete prayer.
Today we are going to take this one step further.
I invite you to read this slowly. Close your eye’s as you are able and take the prayer into your heart. Begin by taking a couple of deep breaths. Breath in God’s Spirit, breathe out. Breath in God’s Spirit. Breath out…
The Apostle Paul once wrote to his young friend and colleague Timothy (chapter 2, verse 1): “I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone…”
For everyone.
I invite you today to get more than one person in your mind’s eye. Imagine people across the globe… people with no power, perhaps living in the streets, in refugee camps, those in prisons… (pause a few moments) And gather with them people with vast power… who may or may not care… Gather with them, people that you love, your family and friends, and with them people no one loves…
And we pray for all God’s children.
Gracious God, just as I wish to be protected, so do they wish to be protected. Just as I wish to be happy, so do they wish to be happy… Just as I wish to be healthy, so do they wish to be healthy… Just as I wish to have peace, so do they wish to have peace.
May all these, your children, O God, be safe… May they be happy… May they be healthy… May they be filled with peace… (speak to them directly) May you be safe… May you be happy… May you be healthy… May you be filled with peace…
We offer you these our prayers today, in all humility and hope, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Daily Message Author: Joe Albright
Joe began his ministry in Sarasota, Florida as an associate pastor, and it was in this capacity that he worked alongside the Reverend Dr. Roger Kunkel. Roger was a colleague who became a mentor and treasured friend. From Sarasota, Joe was called to Jacksonville, Florida where he served as the Head of Staff at Hodges Boulevard Presbyterian Church. Currently, Joe and his family worship and serve at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Switzerland, Florida. Full Bio
