Prayer for August

Our prayer for August is the Mary Sumner prayer:

All this day, O Lord,

let me touch as many lives as possible for thee;

and every life I touch, do thou by thy Spirit quicken,

whether through the word I speak, the prayer I breathe or the life I live.

Amen.

 

Our reflection, from the MU Prayer Diary:

As we meet people on our journey through life, whether family, neighbours, friends; whether Christian, of other faiths or none, we touch each other’s lives just as Mary Sumner prayed. We interact together, and pray for the power of the Holy Spirit to work through us, enabling us to touch others for God. As we live our lives, as we speak and as we pray, we need to trust in that unseen guidance. We ask “what would Jesus do?” as we daily try to be more like him and be the change we want to see in the world.

 

Photo of the Mary Sumner portrait taken by Clare Thomas