Gracious and ever-loving Resurrection God, we offer our prayer to you today as so many of our predecessors have done: perhaps our families, but also our faith families, who, through the generations have never ceased to praise Your Name.
Yet as we come in our own time, we look across the world, Your World, with horror at the inhumanity, the cruelty, the hatred, which seems to be the currency of the land you knew during your time here on earth.
What can we say? What can we do?
Yet though we feel helpless, we would try to look with your eyes, the eyes of faith. We know from our scriptures that you wept over Jerusalem. Lord, so many are weeping, not only over Jerusalem, but over such a wide area, as people are wiped out, and homes, schools and hospitals are razed to the ground. Those who have fled their houses, return and struggle to find them, so little remains recognisable.
Yet we give you thanks for the courage of those doctors, nurses and ambulance drivers who continue to work, despite the conditions and shortages, to bring comfort and healing to broken bodies of children, women and men. Medical professional who have given up their safe positions in safe countries to help those who are suffering.
So, as we pray for a just peace in all these places, we give thanks for those, who despite the personal risk of injury and death, continue to work in these countries that are so afflicted.
Into your hands Lord Jesus we place our prayer. May peace with justice reign in all Your World. Amen.
Barbara Harrison – Area Trustee Scotland & Shetland
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