A prayer of gratitude

Lily Cathcart September 17, 2025 0 0

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1 Timothy 1: 12-17 (NIVUK)

12 I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because he judged me faithful and appointed me to his service, 13 even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, 14 and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 15 The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the foremost. 16 But for that very reason I received mercy, so that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience, making me an example to those who would come to believe in him for eternal life. 17 To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

God you sent your Son to save the people who had lost their way. I thank you so much for this, for looking kindly on humanity and on each of us. Thank you God that you come to us, hands overflowing with seeds of love, understanding, and new starts. Your grace and peace imbued in every one.

What an ecosystem we could grow with these seeds God, what a world of different people living peacefully and lovingly alongside each other. For all my faults and insecurities I dream of that world God and I believe these dreams must come from you.

The world is crying out for us to plant these seeds of kindness, hope and future as we encounter others in our life just as your Son did here on earth.

Be our hands God, teach us your ways gardener of soil and hearts.

Amen.