Today in our prayers for the people of Luxembourg.
Prayer for Peace
Richard E. Kohlman
Creator, sustainer, and lover of life, you have blessed humanity with a beautiful world. What beauty we find in life created in your image. We want to just sit here, in this place of peace, and feel your love.
But we cannot sit. For through the silence we seek comes the penetrating wails of the anguish of a suffering world where there is but fragile peace at best and where people and their spirits and their hopes are dashed upon the rocks of prejudice, greed, and power.
Into this world you call us with the clarion call of a trumpet, calling us to be a people of peace, reconcilers, and healers of the spirit. Strengthen our faith, now, this day, and prepare us to witness the wholeness of body, mind, and spirit that comes in Jesus’ life and ministry. Make us your hands, flesh of your word, giving hope to your world with redeeming presence and activity.
May we not waver in the valley of death's shadows but trust always in the presence of your spirit that goes before us, even now. In the name of Christ, we pray. Amen.
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