Uniting in Prayer is an invitation for the whole Church to slow down, listen deeply to God, and reconnect with one another across cultures, communities and distances.

From Pentecost Sunday on 24 May to the 49th Anniversary of the Uniting Church in Australia on 22 June, we are embarking on a shared season of national prayer.

Over these 30 days, 30 voices from across the Church will come together. Each day, a new voice will lead us in praying as one body around a single, unifying question: “What does it mean to be woven together in Christ's love across cultures and boundaries?”

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Day 26: We come before you with open hearts

Loving God, Heavenly Kupa (Father),

We come before you with open hearts, carrying the pain of a scarred world, and wounded peoples, longing for peace and reconciliation, through the living hope found within your grace.

We give thanks for these lands, for Country entrusted to us. Country, which holds a multitude of stories, memories, and the generational wisdom of First Peoples; alongside a modern shared story of who we are, and who we are yet to become, renewed through your love.

Help us to raise courage and dignity through respectful listening, so that we may knit our hearts back to you, and to each other. Teach us to rest, renew through prayer, let go of what not longer serves, and turn towards injustice with clear minds, knowing we are not alone.

Where there is brokenness, bring healing. Comfort communities carrying grief and guide leaders to seek peace with integrity. When despair threatens to take root, remind us that we are bound together by threads of hope, woven through your love, and strengthened through the presence of your Holy Spirit, and by our practice of your many teachings.

LORD, we pray that hope rises like dawn over Country, steady and faithful. Restore our spirits and make us bearers of new reconciling movements. May justice flow like living waters, bringing freedom, restoration, and new beginnings for all peoples. We place ourselves humbly in your hands.

Amen.

Kym Korbe, proud Koa, Kuku Yalanji woman
Executive Officer UAICC & Covenanting Queensland