Author: Margreta Silverstone

Praying for Peace and Justice on December 8, 2024

Creator God,

It may just be me, as I’m not good at focusing on Advent, but as the days get shorter and shorter, and the weather gets colder and ever more blustery, please help us remember the reason for Christmas.  

Please help us ignore the distraction of holiday jingles, and reject the messages around us that consumption is the point of Christmas.

And in this time of uncertainty, fear and distress about what may or may not happen in coming months and year, help us find peace by putting our trust in you.…

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Praying for Peace and Justice on November 24, 2024

We get to choose

Oh Divine Presence,

It is so easy these days to feel ourselves deep in the darkness of fear, injustice, separateness, anguish, hopelessness, and abandonment.  You remind us that You are an unchanging Presence surrounding us.  This is a universal Law on which we can depend.  It is not our pleas that bring you to consciousness; you come when we least expect you in the darkest part of the night.  The pain of waiting is in proportion to the joy of resurrection.  We get to choose resurrection.

So we ask you to remind us always to seek your presence; to knock when we are afraid; to open the door to let you in. 

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Praying for Peace and Justice on November 17, 2024

Loving Spirit

We lack the words to fully describe the broken heartedness we feel as we witness the continued suffering of the Palestinian people.  Amid the famine, disease and genocide, we hear the cries of your people struggling to survive, grieving for loved ones, not knowing where to turn for safety.

Mother of Justice and Compassion,

We cry out for those who are crushed beneath the horrors of occupation and unjust systems of relentless oppression. We lament the shattering of human rights and our participation in the violent destruction of a people and their homeland.

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Praying for Peace and Justice on November 3, 2024

By the Time You Hear This Song

By the time you hear this song, we’ll know
If everything went wrong, we’ll know
If decency sings louder than fear
By the time you hear this song

By the time you hear my voice, we’ll know
The meaning of the choice, we’ll know
If it was just another election year
By the time you hear my voice

Hosanna, hosannna

By the time you hear this song, we’ll know
Where you and I belong
By the time you hear this song

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Praying for Peace and Justice on October 20, 2024

Let us pray.

Holy One,

As Jeremiah cried out, “Peace, peace, when there is no peace.”

In Matthew’s Gospel, to be consoled, because peace is no more in our land.  Holy One, we cry out: Peace, peace when there is no peace.“

Without justice, there can be no peace.  Give us the grace and strength to work for peace in our world, in our relationships, in our streets, in our community, and in our country.

In Your many names we pray: Amen

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