Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily 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.

Tuesday, Aug. 22 We pray for people of all ages and backgrounds who struggle with addiction, recovery and sobriety. We pray that they will find effective immediate and long-term assistance and that they will have supportive and nonjudgmental people and communities to turn to—including us.

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