8/9/2021 - Heavenly Father, thank you

8/9/2021 - offered by Annie Kanjian

Heavenly Father

Thank you for the opportunity to come together today. We thank you for the clergy including Hayr Vazken and all teachers of faith who dedicate their lives to disseminating and explaining the Word and your eternal and gracious Love.

We thank you also for all the blessings bestowed on us from the simplest of daily necessities to the miracles, both seen and unseen, in our lives.

Please guide our daily thoughts, deeds and words so that we be shining lights of love, peace and comfort to our families and all those we come into contact with.

In our times of need, please send us the comforter so that we may more readily weather the storms – at all times remembering that periods of difficulty are opportunities to bring us closer to you, strengthening our faith.

We pray that with our fastpaced lifestyles, we remember to spend time in prayer and contemplation and, in so doing, we quieten our minds and hearts enabling us to hear you when you speak with your infinite wisdom providing us with the guidance we seek for the decisions we wish to make.

And finally, during the current times of illness and environmental disasters, we pray for protection for all peoples around the world and for the humbleness, compassion and selflessness of decision makers and leaders both in the US and abroad to bring about resolution of these problems.

Amen