09/01/2026
Today is World Day of Prayer for Creation. We offer this prayer for water adapted from the Season of Creation Celebration Guide.
Almighty and ever living God, we thank you for your love in all creation, and especially for your gift of water to sustain and cleanse all life. Christ is the living water, cleansing, refreshing, and making all things new. So now we offer our thanks for the waters that bring beauty to all that we enjoy, the wild places, the bush, the mountains, coast and the sea. We give thanks and praise for all good lands, for the trees and pastures, for our plentiful crops, and for the living water that quenches them.
God of living waters, today we pray for a wounded world where waters are exploited, polluted, and withheld. We pray for places where plastics, toxins, and oil spills blacken creeks and wetlands, for communities whose fishing waters are contaminated and whose children drink from polluted streams. Heal what has been poisoned. Bring justice where profit has silenced truth.
We pray for all rivers dammed without the consent of the vulnerable; for farmers whose soil dries seasonal flood; for indigenous peoples whose sacred waters are engineered for distant cities and data centers; for the suffering of communities whose livelihoods are stolen by corporate greed, and whose health is sacrificed for global consumption. Free what has been unjustly controlled. Let rivers flow again with dignity and life.
God, whose Spirit moved over the deep: we thank you for the gift of water. Where water flows, Lord, let everything live, trees for food and leaves for healing.
