Dear Heavenly Father,
help every kind of family to find God’s grace in our relationships.
Give parents and foster-parents wisdom, patience and insight
in caring for their children.
Keep teenagers safe
as they test the rules they have been taught.
Give children enough food, enough love,
and enough freedom to grow and flourish.
To adult children and their parents,
give mutual respect and freedom to change.
To people who live alone, give fruitfulness in their solitude,
and pleasure in good friends and companions.
Where our family members cause us anxiety,
help us to trust them to your care.
Where their priorities are different to ours,
help us to see their world through their eyes,
and be more faithful to our own calling.
Where people we love are in relationships that are fragile or broken,
help us know how best to help you in your work of healing.
Where we are estranged from family members,
help us discover and use the bridges you build between all people.
Where our family relationships are strong and healthy,
help us to welcome strangers to our homes and tables.
Bring us closer in love and obedience by your Word and Spirit,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
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