Planting Prayers of Peace - Week One
September 07, 2025
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Prayer trees
Peace is vibrant. Real peace is not humdrum and boring, it’s colourful and radiant. A peaceful garden is one that is alive with life, full of oxygen and hope, teeming with plants and species. A peaceful meadow is a riot of diversity and activity. This week we pray for biodiversity instead of monoculture, vibrancy instead of idolatry — let’s ask God for a biodiversity of blessings!
SEEDS TO SOW: What’s your favourite tree? It could be a species of tree or maybe it’s a particular tree in your garden, or near you home, or that you pass on the way to work, or that you remember from childhood? Thank God for the trees of our lives and the peace that they bring.
Read Psalm 139: 1-18
A prayer of self-rediscovery.
As we read in this psalm we are — each of us — wonderful creations. We are intricately packed likes seeds full of potential! And each one of us, like trees in a forest, are entirely unique. But, also like trees in a forest, we are part of a network that is bigger than any individual.
Q: Do you have a favourite word or phrase in this psalm?
Read Psalm 1
A prayer of humility.
This psalm tells us that following and trusting God is like being a tree planted by streams of water.
Q: What is such a tree like? What qualities and attributes would it have? And what can we learn from these trees?
Read Philemon 1
A prayer responding to the hearts God sends us.
”I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you.”! How often do we want to snub someone, hurt someone, punish someone — and God, like Paul, says to us “I am sending my heart back to you, put the cost on me, I’ll pay it, just take them back.” Onesimus is to be welcomed back as an equal. This compassion is essential in the complex web of living on a planet with shared resources and a shared climate.
Q: How can this reading inspire followers of Christ to be more forgiving and welcoming to the people God sends our way?
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