Weekly Breath Prayers: October 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, October 5, 2025
Realign my heart to rejoice in another’s joy.

We live in a highly competitive world where trophies, prizes and first place ribbons are coveted.  To cheer for an opponent or congratulate the winner is unheard of...or is it? Joy? Joy for someone else’s success? You can’t help but smile!

Our prayer this week is just that...a request to our Father to enable us to reset our priorities, take a step back, realize that we are all in this game of life together. Even when we are not the number one place winner, there is still room to find joy and happiness.

What you look for, you will find. What you pray for, you will focus upon. So let’s come together to celebrate everyone’s victories. Let us look for opportunities to lift our neighbors up in spirit. Let us sincerely pray to open our hearts wide enough to receive all that comes our way. We might find ourselves rejoicing in someone else’s joy!

Sunday, October 12, 2025
Open our eyes, Creator, to see Your image in each of us.

In a world quick to judge and slow to understand, we confess how easily we label one another. In just a heartbeat, we decide who belongs, who matters, who is worthy— and half the time, we are the ones being judged in return. It doesn’t feel fair, and it isn’t Your way.

So we pause.

We breathe.

We ask You to change the lenses through which we see. Give us eyes that look deeper— to notice grace where we once saw difference, to find kindness where we expected none, to see the spark of divinity in every face we meet.

You have called each of us precious and beloved. But we are human, and we forget. So awaken in us the holy power of prayer to reframe our minds and soften our hearts. Help us discover the beauty, courage, and gifts You have planted in one another.

Sunday, October 19, 2025

Reveal the gifts within us - hidden blessings of Your grace.

Last week Pastor Kenneth talked about the “why” in us in his sermon…WHY did God create each one of us?  What is our purpose? That leads directly into this week’s breath prayer…we all do have gifts!  Some are clearly revealed, some take years to unfold.  However, if we focus on our Father’s love for us, those gifts often become more apparent.

Tying into last week’s breath prayer of seeking to see God’s image in others, that means if we have been blessed with gifts, so has every other human we meet! As we seek to discover our gifts and talents, we owe it to the other humans we meet daily to honor their gifts and talents as well!

Pause with me and close your eyes...Ask yourself “Why?”…. “Why am I here Lord?” Think of someone else that you see daily… “What gifts and talents am I missing that this person possesses?”…

…And in this moment of reflection.... “Lord, reveal your hidden blessings to me!” Amen!

Sunday, October 26, 2025

Deepen our desire, Lord, to grow in faith and trust.

As we witnessed last Sunday and have the pleasure of witnessing again, one of our initial invitations to faith is through the Sacrament of baptism. But as we grow, it is essential that we deepen that childlike faith into a rich connection with our heavenly Father. Bible studies, small groups, quiet meditations all can lead us closer to a stronger faith.

But life isn’t all roses and easy living! It is in the challenging moments that we must draw on the trust we have in the one who cares for us so deeply. We humans cannot always see the gleaming threads of faith that hold us tightly when we are struggling just to breathe. And so...this is where prayer comes in and gives us the opportunity to strengthen our faith through all that we experience, good and bad.

We do have deep desires but rarely is the partnership with our Lord number one on the list! This week, join me in praying fiercely for a firm foundation in faith with the triune God. Let us focus our eyes on growing closer to the one who never fails us not lets us go!