Today in our prayers for the people of Kenya.

Prayer for Peace

Kathy McGuire

We know that you have created us so that we might have joy. And yet, by using our free agency, we have created pain. We know that Jesus's example was of love and compassion. Yet, we often choose to hate, fear, and ignore the needs of our companions on this journey. The world you have created and so generously given to us feels the pain of our choices and groans to be liberated from the chains we created.

Free us, O God. Create in us clean hearts and pure visions. Infuse us with a desire to be agents of peace in a world of suffering and need. Clear our minds that we might see truthfully the steps that can be taken to bring healing and reconciliation to all your creation. Help us recognize you and respond to you as you move within each of us, guiding us toward the perfection that is already ours out of which comes a deep yet resounding call for peace in all the world.

You have called us by our names. You know us intimately. You know our capacities. Then you have given us the greatest gift of calling us by your son’s name. We are called Christians. Let that name and Christ-spirit unite us with all the world rather than separate us from our fellow humans. Then, as Christians, may we be healing agents in a universe that ever calls us forward.

For the sake of your universal kingdom, we pray in Jesus’s name. Amen.