Today in our prayers for the people of United Kingdom.
Prayer for Peace
Jeri Shumate
Divine origin of life, by your hand we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Through you, we are fashioned as emotional, passionate beings. By you, we know joy and sorrow.
Sometimes, God, our emotions, cause intense and profound pain. Something or someone wounds us, and we feel our hearts tearing in anguish. The pain is so great we close ourselves off, desperate to keep from pouring our hearts out of the hole of our pain.
Carry us in these hours of darkness, O God, so we may grant ourselves time to heal our wounds. Sustain us so that we will risk staying open for as long as it takes to clean all the poison out of our souls. Guide us to healers and friends who will support us as we return to emotional balance and health.
Remind us that when we face and own the complete depths of our anger, sorrow and bitterness, we make ourselves available to the sweetest and most is ecstatic of emotions — joy, hope, and love.
As you guide and sustain us, oh God, we will learn the peace and freshness of emotional well-being. Through Christ’s love. Amen.
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