Prayer Offered for February 19, 2019

Gracious God, in this world of so many messages, we often feel overwhelmed. Sometimes we barely hear Your voice amid the clamor of each day’s discouraging news. In what can seem like unrelenting struggle, we strain to feel Your peace.

Help us each day to pay attention:

To notice which words, pictures, and attitudes are forming us—

To use our ears to hear You, our eyes to see You, and our voices to speak Your love.

Grant us the courage to challenge falsehood, to distinguish honesty from hypocrisy, to see goodness where it lives, and to overcome world-weariness and despair with our unrelenting commitment to the common good.  We ask this in Your name.—AMEN.