A Prayer for Today

Loving God,

We thank you for all our amazing young people who are awaiting their exam results, at whatever stage they are at.

Lord we pray that they get the grades they deserve and will know to seek you in their rejoicing.

Lord we also pray for those who may not quite get the results that they desire, but we pray that they know their grades do not define them, only your love does.

Lord we thank you for your patience and your guidance at these times.

Amen

Come, Holy Spirit. Come near to us and bless our prayer. Refresh, renew and fill us that we might receive our calling anew. Teach us patience that we might reflect your patient love as we seek to sing a new song so that in all things we might give glory to God, through Christ and in the power of the Spirit. Encourage us and fill us with hope for the future that with warmed hearts, fresh harmonies and renewed hands and voices we might pour ourselves out in love for others as you have poured out your love for us in Christ. Come, Holy Spirit. Come, Lord, come.

We commend to you, O Lord, our waking and our sleeping, our going out and our coming in, our souls and our bodies, our words and our deeds, our life and our death, our household and our companions, our world and our neighbours.