Dear wise and loving Creator:
“Thank you” on behalf of all who are gathered here today. Thank you for your many and abundant blessings in this city of Sarnia, in the province of Ontario, and in this nation of Canada.
Thank you for the gift of life itself, for the measure of health we need to fulfill our callings, for sustenance and for friendship.
Thank you for the ability to be involved in useful work and for the honor of bearing appropriate responsibilities. Thanks as well for the freedom to embrace you or the freedom to reject you. Thank you for loving the human race-- from your boundless and gracious nature.
In the scriptures you have said that citizens ought to obey governing authorities. You have established those very authorities to promote peace and order and justice. Therefore, We pray for our mayor Mike, for those who work in various capacities for the City of Sarnia, and, in particular, for this assembled council. We are asking that you would graciously grant them:
Wisdom to govern amid the conflicting interests and issues of our times
A sense of the welfare and true needs of our people
A keen thirst for justice and rightness
Confidence in what is good and fitting
The ability to work together in harmony even when there is honest disagreement
Personal peace in their lives and joy in their task
We pray for the agenda set before them today. Please allow their deliberations and decisions to benefit those who live and work in and around our beloved city of Sarnia.
We pray especially for those in our community who are less fortunate, and in need, for food for the hungry, shelter for the homeless, care for the aged, and healing for those with addictions.
It is in your most blessed Name we pray, Amen.
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