Saturday, March 12

But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare …. Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you. When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart, 14I will let you find me, says the Lord

Jeremiah 29: 7, 12-14a

Prayers For Those Who Have No One to Pray for Them.

For teens and adults arrested for driving while black.

For the honor student who just dropped out of high school.

For teen mothers and fathers whose
parenting programs were defunded.

For patients turned away for lack of medical insurance.

For the newly divorced, especially those with children.
And for the children.

For all those without safe drinking water.

For those who go to sleep hungry. And wake up hungry.
And go through the day. Hungry.

For the forgotten whom we never knew or whose names
and faces we cannot remember.

For those who no longer have the capacity to remember.

For millions of refugees who cannot return to their homelands and have no new country to claim them.

For the homeless and hungry.

For the poor who are blamed for their own poverty.

For the poor in spirit.

For all those killed due to lack of adequate gun laws.

For ourselves lest we forget.

And Lest we forget we are not perfect.

Lest we forget to name our daily blessings.

Alinda Wasner