Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer for the day from the ELCA resource Prayer Ventures, which can be downloaded here. These petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs of the world and give thanks for the ministries of our church.

Thursday, Aug. 18: We pray that we will tell without reluctance or shyness the story of God’s presence, love and justice in the world throughout history and not forget to weave in our own stories as loved and forgiven children of God.

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