Today in our prayers for the people of Azerbaijan.

Prayer for Peace

Sharon P. Troyer

Maker of all life, source of all goodness and healing,

We have called you many names, and even by those words we cannot capture your mystery: spirit, source, forgiver, creator, sustainer, almighty, Lord God, abba, father. We seek your name because you have named us your own, and in that we have our life and being.

We thank you with humility for calling us and placing in us a longing to be at one with your love so that in each separated moment, our restlessness summons us home. Grant us the peace in our hearts that creates the space to allow us to step into the active moments of service, not as people who are healed but as the wounded healers who trust in your grace.

Give us wisdom and discernment to see the God-radiance in all people, to recognize it readily and to reflect it to them, lest they wait alone having forgotten who they really are. Amen.