Monthly Message 

 

PRAYER FOR PEACE TO THE WORLD

Lord God, we have lost our childlike trust, lost the promise of your garden, lost our way to your Holy Mountain.

Come to us with your vision of hope. Our sight is clouded by the smoke of bombs and silenced by sirens. We have nowhere to go but to our knees.

Hear now the yearning of our souls as we silently pray for peace. We pray for our loved ones who fight in the air, on the waters, across the sand.

We remember for those affected by homelessness, poverty, hunger, sickness and death.

We pray for our world leaders who direct war and negotiate peace. We pray for ourselves, caught in a dilemma as peacemakers who hate evil and support justice, yet resist the option of war.

And because Jesus commands us to love our enemies even though it is difficult to, we pray for our enemies.

Lord, hear our prayers for the vision of a peaceable kingdom. May that old stump of Jesse’s tree bring forth a new shoot, a new hope and a new future.

Mighty and everlasting God, bring peace, justice to our world and everlasting hope to your people now and always.

AMEN

Adapted from “Praying the Season” by Sylvia Casberg, (2012); Sunny Fields Publishing, pages 207 and 217.

Reverend Stanslous Chatikobo; Minister, Trinity Church