50 Days of Prayer

Today I learned about a call to prayer issued from the Presiding Bishop of the ELCA. It was a call to simply pray. Specifically, a call to pray for the preparation of the church to gather together as representatives from many diverse congregations across the country as the church continues to seek God's righteous path and walk in it. I was particularly captured by a simple prayer out of the new hymnal that was shared as an option for daily meditation. I think I'll simply end this post with that. May it be our prayer always.

Gracious Father, we pray for your holy catholic church.

Fill it with all truth and peace.

Where it is corrupt, purify it; where it is in error, direct it;

where in anything it is amiss, reform it;

where it is right, strengthen it; where it is divided, reunite it;

for the sake of Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord.

(Evangelical Lutheran Worship)