Every day, Living Lutheran offers a prayer from the ELCA resource Prayer ventures, which can be downloaded here. These daily petitions are offered as a guide for your own prayer life as together we pray for the needs of the world and give thanks for the ministries of our church.
Saturday, Jan. 6 Last year there were over 40,000 gun deaths in our country, including suicides. We pray for an end to these senseless deaths and the resulting trauma, grief and anguish that spread through our communities and nation. We ask God to lead us out of hopelessness and inaction and to renew our commitment to end gun violence.