Today in our prayers for the people of Barbados.
Prayer for Peace
Katie Harmon-MacLaughlin
God,
We pray for peace, but do we really want the things that make for peace? Search our hearts, O God, and help us remove the fears and insecurities that keep us from living our prayers. May our prayers become alive in the world through courageous vision and loving action. Gift us with wisdom God, to see the bigger picture, and respond to the complex issues of our time with mercy, grace, and justice.
Break our hearts with the sufferings of our sisters and brothers both far and near. Help us to really see those in our communities who yearn for nourishment in body and belonging. Sensitize us once more to needless violence and systems of abuse we are tempted to justify or ignore.
Grow within us an awareness of the joy and abundance experienced when your peaceable kin-dom vision is lived in the context of our lives. May your spirit of peace bless the suffering and stir the comfortable so we can all live as one in the light of your love. Shape our prayers, God, and our living, toward the things that make for peace.
In the name of Jesus. Amen.
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