Prayers of the People, E3B

​Like beggars at the gate
called Beautiful
we are lame.
Unable to stand under
the weight of our sin,
unable to walk bearing
the burden of our grief,
unable to move forward to
confront our fear ...
to overcome our anxieties.
Each day we depend
on the love of our family,
on the commitment of the community,
on the kindness of strangers,
to lift us
from our places of crippling
inability to function,
and carry us to the Healer.
Hear our prayers
for mercy.
Be present, we pray,
in the wisdom
and knowledge
and technology
and touch
of every kind of healer
whom you have endowed with gifts
toward that end,
that the world might be restored
to wholeness
in the name of Jesus
the risen Christ.

Amen.