09/11/2026
Heavenly Father, Creator of all people and all nations, with sorrow and remembrance, we look back twenty-five years to the tragic and dark day of September 11, 2001. We lift up to you all those who died at the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon, and on Flight 93 in Pennsylvania. We entrust them into Your loving care. Continue to console the families, friends, and all who still mourn their irretrievable loss. Ease the lingering physical, emotional, and spiritual wounds of the survivors and rescue workers who carry the painful memories of that day. We give thanks for the extraordinary courage of the first responders, service members, and ordinary citizens who ran toward danger to save others. Transform our collective grief into strength, unity, and a lasting commitment to compassion. As our world remains fractured, make us instruments of Your peace. Guide us away from hatred and toward reconciliation, helping us to live lives worthy of the memories we honor today. We ask this in your name.
Amen.
