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.
Sunday, Aug. 21: When traditions, routines or rituals – even those of the church – inhibit us from caring for our neighbor, we ask God for the wisdom to discern what is most important and to not fear change for the sake of doing God’s work in our communities and the world.