To Bring Loving Change – A Prayer

Listening to the news in all its horror often makes us feel powerless. But we are never powerless. Prayer operates outside time, and may not always deliver what we expect, but it empowers us to reflect and bring about change… hopefully loving change... for the better.

Electronic pulses
Pump streams of messages
Broadcast sorrow
We see anger, frenzy
Snapshots of horror

In one place
Men queue to kill
In another
People scurry away
Filled with terror

We are all witnesses 
We hear, we see, we feel

Let’s ask for understanding
That healing may happen

In prayer 
We use words of love
We ask that torn minds
And injured bodies
May be healed

We pray for peace
To put an end to intolerance
Stop conflict
Open doors
To understanding

Let us pray
That we may touch the air
Calm the fire
Bless the earth
Stroke the water
Transcend time and space
And bring
Loving change
To this place
Together