Let’s pray into summer.
Every season creates unique opportunities for prayer, but doesn’t summer seem to offer a bigger, brighter canvas?
Maybe it’s the “school’s out” mentality that frames summer as a time of accelerated freedom. Maybe it’s the warmer weather and longer days that seem to extend possibility.
Doesn’t summer, with its increased opportunity for porch sitting, or time in the garden, or time on the sidewalk with a stroller or a pup, offer a pace that invites prayer?
Let’s pray into summer.
Lord, let us see you more clearly this summer.
On June 5, as the sun sets at around 8:47 pm, from wherever you are, with whomever wants to join you, let’s pray together for all that summer offers.
Let’s begin with prayers for our church. June 5 is Pentecost Sunday, the celebration of the day the Holy Spirit visited believers and allowed them to connect with community in new ways. Lord, show us how we, as a church family, can create new relationships and share your Love and your Light in new ways.
Let’s pray for children and youth as the school year ends. Let’s lift a prayer of thanks for all they’ve seen and shared and learned in the past school year, and let’s ask Jesus to nourish them in new ways through the summer. Let’s pray for parents and others—grandparents, camp counselors, lifeguards, day care workers—facing new challenges and opportunities as the school year ends.
Let’s pray for teachers and all involved in education, thanking God for all they provided and poured out through the school year. Let’s ask him to restore and refresh them through the summer.
Let’s pray for youth in summer jobs and internships.
Let’s pray for graduates facing new opportunities.
Let’s pray for vacations, camps, and VBS opportunities in a summer a little less restricted by concern over the pandemic.
Let’s pray for Pride events. Let’s pray for community events. Let’s pray for block parties and church picnics. Let’s pray for weddings, graduation parties, baby showers, firework nights, and family reunions.
Let’s ask God to reveal him at swimming pools, ballfields, golf courses, amusement parks, playgrounds, dog parks, yards and gardens, and at bike trails.
Lord, show us how we can serve and share and know you this summer.