Today in our prayers for the people of Dominica.

Prayer for Peace

Duane Couey

Eternal God,

Even as the fire has touched the candle and caused it to give light, we reach forward to receive the light. This candle has burned eternally in your bosom, and there is not one element of the reality that surrounds us that is not infused and permeated with it.

What a glorious thing it is to be in your light. As we attempt to contemplate your divine grace, we are keenly aware that many in the world do not seek, or for some untoward circumstances, do not walk in your light. God, we are concerned for all your human children, those in the far reaches of the world as well as those who are personally known to us.

We have begun a new day and a new year. Because of how many human beings understand time, it is potentially an occasion of newness for all humankind. Wherever possible, O Lord, may the sense of newness move persons ever upward and onward in the task to which you have called us.

May this also be a time of jubilee, in which we cast from our consciousness offenses that may have been committed upon us, and may we be awakened to each new day to recognize the good, which is before us to be accomplished. May we see the great potential in each person’s life.

And as we endeavor to see this vision, cause us to marvel because of the awareness of the desire which you must work within them, and within each one of us. For, indeed, no person has any greater love than that which could cause them to give all that they have for the benefit of others.

We would ask, O Lord, that if our faith leads us to walk in this path, that the cause of peace will have progressed, and in whatever way in which this occurs, that it may be an occasion of joy and celebration. Amen.

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