God -
Your whole creation groans while we wait for the redemption of our bodies.
As physical, emotional, spiritual, and natural diseases ail Your creation, may we continue groaning with labor pains - pains that signify birth, renewal, transformation, and new life.
Lead us by Your Spirit, so we may be transformed.
Lead us by Your Spirit, so we may suffer with and glorify Christ.
Lead us by Your Spirit, so Your creation may be set free from the bondage of decay and experience glorious freedom.
Abba -
We groan with labor pains because we patiently hope - for freedom, for adoption, for redemption, for all that we do not see.
As we labor, may Your Spirit bear witness to our spirits, and may our hopes release holy cries of new life as Your Spirit pulls them into being.
In the name of the One who makes us joint heirs with Christ, we pray.
Amen.