Praying for Peace and Justice on September 7, 2025
An Immigrant’s Prayer of Lament:
For those who feel the weight of injustice, displacement, and broken hope. You are not alone. God sees, hears, and walks with you.
Lord, You who see from above, do You not also see what is happening down here?
Do You not see those fleeing danger, met with rejection? Those seeking bread, met with walls? Those who just want to live… treated as if they are worth nothing?
You say You bring justice to the foreigner and the orphan, but here, in this land, justice feels silent. The powerful shut doors, harden laws, forget compassion. And we—the small, the tired, those with nowhere to fall— where are we in their eyes?
But I know, Lord, that You do not forget. You were with Joseph in Egypt, with Ruth in a foreign land, with Mary and Joseph as they fled violence with their child. You too were once a refugee.
So I cry out to You. Not for pretty words. But for justice. For comfort. For a sign that we are not alone.
Do not let evil have the last word. Defend the voiceless. Give bread to the hungry. Give refuge to the fleeing. Give comfort to the broken.
And if I must be Your instrument in this land, make me brave. Make me compassionate. Help me remember I am not alone— that even in exile, I am Your child, and You are my home. Amen.