A prayer written by Andrew McLellan as we remember that this is our fight, this is our war
Dear God, we read in scripture that in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. So this is our fight, our war. Each one who dies is one of us. Each one who is wounded is one of us. Each one bereaved is one of us. When we pray for the victims of this war we are praying for our own.
So in the name of Jesus Christ our brother, whose body was broken for us, we pray for our own. Our own sisters and brothers, be they Christian, Jew, Muslim, Druze or people of no faith.
For a year we have prayed. For more than three hundred daily prayers we have prayed for peace, for the killing to stop, for safety and healing and an end to being enemies. We have nearly exhausted our words, our tears, our believing.
So we ask for the words to be given to us, for the energy we need to pray, for the faith we need. In the darkness of another year’s beginning give us the faith to believe that some day there will be an end to death and mourning and crying and pain: a day when you will wipe every tear from every eye. We pray that your kingdom will come and your will be done.
And while we pray for everyone in the midst, for every one of our own, we also take time to pray for St Andrew’s Jerusalem and Tiberias, for the ministers Stewart and Muriel, for the congregation and their partners. Hold them and do not let them go.
Dear God, by what we say and what we do and what we pray, make us instruments of your peace.
Amen
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