Praying for Peace and Justice on October 12, 2025
Let us Pray
Holy Breath of Creation,
We read this morning’s headline – “Israelis and Palestinians Await Hostage – Prisoner Swap with Relief and Elation” and we, too, feel relief and elation. We see the long lines of Palestinian families making their way back north to their homes and we are grateful for that sight, even as we know the monumental and heartbreaking task of rebuilding ahead of them.
We know how fragile this peace plan is. We sense how easy it may be for a few who are not feeling relief and elation but rather anger and betrayal at the laying down of arms to derail it.
We beseech you to soften the hearts of everyone involved, to fill them with deep desire to make this plan work: to help with the distribution of humanitarian aid, with the rebuilding of Gaza, with the development of a body that can govern Gaza and most importantly with the healing of all those who have been traumatized by this heinous war.
We ask that you show us how we, even so far away, can be part of the healing so needed in this moment.
May it be so.
Amen.