Prayer Offered for August 17, 2023

For the expanding grandeur of Creation, we give thanks this day.
For this fragile planet, Earth, we give thanks this day.
For the joy of human life, its wonders and surprises, we give thanks.
For our human community, our oneness transcending all separation, we give thanks.
And we pray for faith without fanaticism, for understanding of views not shared.
We pray for all who labor and suffer for a fairer world.
We pray that we may live, not by our fears, but by our hopes, not by our words but by our deeds.—AMEN.
_{(Reverend O. Eugene Pickett)}