For those parents who struggle to make ends meet, that they may find strength when they grow weary, and that they may earn a just wage, we pray:
For those children who are unwanted, unloved, neglected, or abused, that God may fill these voids with his love, we pray:
For families and persons who care for those with special emotional or physical needs, we pray:
For those who are preparing for marriage, that they may accept children as a gift of God and lovingly nurture and care for them, we pray:
For those who feel weighed down by years, that society will acknowledge the contributions which the elderly have made and continue to make to our world, we pray:
For those coming through the bleakness of drug or alcohol addiction, unsure of their ability to face life without these supports, we pray:
For those suffering with and from AIDS, that judgment and alienation may be replaced with love, we pray:
For the unemployed, that they may not lose courage and hope while searching for work, we pray:
For the hungry and the overfed, may they have enough, we pray:
For those deprived of their human needs and their human rights, that they may be given the dignity you confer on all your people, we pray:

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