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, Jan. 1: Our prayers are filled with awe and thanksgiving for the power and majesty of God reflected in all of creation, the universe and each other—wonderfully created, diverse human beings.

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