Intercessions – the Pond  (adapted from John Pritchard’s Circles of Prayer)

For these intercessions, I would like you to close your eyes and imagine a pond.  It is a sunny day and the pond is still, reflecting the trees and the sky above.  

Today’s prayers are based around the hymn “Now thank we all our God”.

Now thank we all our God, with hearts and hands and voices, who wonderous things hath done, in whom this world rejoices; who from our mother’s arms has blest us on our way with countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.

Let us pray for the life of the church and of the world. 

Lord God, we see the plans and strategies of nations tuned upside down and running amuck.   So we pray for your world.

We pray for world leaders that your presence and light may flow through their hearts and souls.