Praying for Peace and Justice on March 30, 2025
Holy Breath of All Life, in a time of great turmoil, we pray you to make yourself known to each heart in this place and in every corner of your creation. In turn we bring ourselves to you on this Sabbath day. You know our day of rest and adoration is also filled with sorrow, horror, and insecurity. We cry out to you as the government of our country is acting contrary to your law which you planted in our hearts. Our hearts which threaten to break. The horror of buildings collapsing on Myanmar and Thai people who have lost their lives to the movement of tectonic plates flash before us on the news. Those left living with the horror and loss will look to us for assistance, as do the countries we have already abandoned. We pray with bowed heads as the likelihood of our government offering the aid that has been our historic offering will likely not be offered. We face domestic injustice of proportions beyond our worst nightmares. We struggle with the question of how much must we do. We will put one foot in front of the other, do what we see is ours to do, and pray you, Holy One, will hold us up, and that together, peace and justice will prevail.