WESLEY METHODIST CHURCH Caerphilly

Philip Begley: philip@caerphillymethodistchurch.org

Gracious God,
how blessed we are to live and serve as a community of your people.
 Gifted with the beauty of creation surrounding us.
Lead us into significant relationships that nurture and challenge us,
as we experience the promise of life, and are grateful.

Lead us, O God, as we seek, in this season of Lent, to journey with our eyes fixed on Jesus.

Fill us with a peace that passes all human understanding, a peace the world cannot give to us, neither can it take away.

But, Lord, let us never be satisfied with personal peace alone.
Lead us into paths of peacemaking and reconciliation.
We pray that the hearts of those world leaders who are more inclined to wage war than to seek peace, will be softened.

Where there is brokenness,
form us into instruments of forgiveness.
Where there is despair,
make us channels of your hope.
Where there is division, may we be empowered to bring healing and wholeness.
Where darkness abounds, grant us courage to walk in the light,
our eyes fixed on Jesus,
the light of the world. Amen.