While we try to be inclusive in our prayer concerns, there are times we are unaware of specific needs, If you would like to include a family member on our prayer concerns list, please submit their name in writing to the church office. If is our policy to keep names on the list for three weeks unless otherwise specified.

In Our Prayers: Bill, Alvia, Virginia, Megan, Dan, Lauren, George, Jack, Lynn, Margaret, Kelly, Gabrielle, Ben, Joshua, Barb, Delora, Jamie, Charlotte, Donald, John, Lois.

I knelt to pray when day was done,
And prayed, "O Lord bless everyone;
Lift from each saddened heart the pain
And let the sick be well again."

And then I woke another day,
And carelessly went on my way,
The whole day long I did not try
To wipe a tear from any eye;

I did not try to share the load
Of any other on the road;
I did not even go to see
The man who's sick, next door to me.

Yet once again when day was done,
I prayed, "O Lord bless everyone..."
But as I prayed; into my ear
There came a voice that whispered clear.

"Pause, hypocrite, before you pray
Whom have you tried to bless today?
God's sweetest blessings always go
To hands that serve Him here below."

And then I hid my face and cried,
"Forgive me God, for I have lied,
Let me live but another day,
And I will live the way I pray."

-Author Unknown

I got up early one morning
And rushed right into the day;
I had so much to accomplish
That I didn't have time to pray.

Problems just tumbling about me,
And heavier came each task;
"Why doesn't God help me," I wondered,
He answered, "You didn't ask."

I wanted to see joy and beauty
But the day toiled on, gray and bleak,
I wondered why God didn't show me
He said, "But you didn't seek."

I tried to come into God's presence;
I used all my keys at the lock
Got gently and lovingly chided,
"My child, you didn't knock."

I woke up early this morning
And paused before entering the day.
I had so much to accomplish
That I had to take time to pray.

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