Weekly Breath Prayers: August 2025

Every Sunday, we begin our worship services with a simple breath prayer from Milford First's lay leader to guide us through the week. Below are this month’s breath prayers along with weekly reflections from Deb Johnson. We hope these prayers are meaningful tools for your spiritual life and journey!

Sunday, August 3, 2025
Guide our daily choices, Lord, until all flourish.

Did you know that trees support each other? Through an intricate underground network of chemical signaling system they do! This network is called the “wood-wide-web” as the trees share nutrients, water, and even warnings about threats like pests or diseases. This allows all tree species to thrive and flourish, creating a more resilient ecosystem. Perhaps we humans have a bit more learning to do!

Can you imagine our world if humans were to do the same? Share resources, support each other, warn of threats? What a concept! Our breath prayer this week could be the first step to this amazing concept. We DO wish for all to flourish, right?

Our daily choices do make a difference...think of all the people you interact with in just one day! Pray for guidance, think about the many times you respond to adversity or confrontation. Pray about your daily choices. Imagine an Earth where ALL humans flourish! That just might be heaven on Earth!

Lead us all Lord to help others flourish.