8 June 2025 Prayer for the Pastor + Deacon + Chaplain

You can pray along with Pr. Laura right HERE

God, have your Holy Spirit do her thing today in my life. Like, for real. I know it’s a dangerous prayer right off the bat, because your Holy Spirit is wiley and disruptive and she causes messes. And. It’s always the and. And she usually reveals what ought to be revealed to me about your love and grace and mercy in my life. Like, you know, right now. And when I can see clearly because of your work in me, well it usually brings me to my knees. Or at the very least, it stops me from talking. This call on my life – I’m invested in it. It matters to me so very much. And – there’s that “and” again. And! My life when I am not doing this work also matters so very much to me. And sometimes my actual life seems to contradict or make very difficult the preaching about and the pointing to and the working within your miraculous presence in my life and in the world. So help me to care, but you know, not too much. Remind me that you are the foundation of it all. You are faithful. You are God and I am not. And I thank you for that. So stir up my curiosity and my awkwardness in equal measure. Stir up all the things you’ve made me to be just who I am, because it’s how others can see you better sometimes too. It’s so weird. And it’s so good.

I pray for my family – chosen or born into – today. Give us stubborn love to keep loving and to not give up. And when we rely on you, it makes it even seem possible. I pray for my colleagues doing this work, too. We are in it together. Help me to be a good friend to them. Thank you, God, for stirring up my life. Your love is worth it. Even today. Especially today. Amen