Dearest
God
When senseless
violence, hatred, and the promulgation of fear crash innocent lives, we collectively
cry out in our shared humanity, “Why God, Why!?”
In
the aftermath of yet another confusingly violent and disgustingly purposeless
torrent of inhumanity and evil, help us to stay focused, O God.
Help
us, as a people to resist the evil temptation that wishes to return evil with
more evil.
Help
us to seek your Justice rather than the temporary course of mere revenge.
Help
us to reach out in prayer to all those affected—from the lives disrupted by the
bombings to the lives so distorted in fear and hatred that they would choose to
cause such evil to be unleashed on innocent lives.
Help
us, O God, to rise above the anger and hurt of such senseless violence and
remember our shared humanity that, seeking the peace that passes all
understanding, we may live in your love rather than our very legitimate fear,
hatred, and disgust.
Help us,
we pray, to be laborers for your peace this day and be the presence of your Son
to all who cry out in anguish because of such unspeakable evil.
God,
you have said that perfect love casts out all fear, so today, let us live out
of that love and be the people you have called and created us to be that fear
may succumb to your loving grace and peace.
In Jesus ’ Name
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