Where People Live
from ‘Australian Prayers’ by Bruce D Prewer
Where people live with a bitterness of spirit which poisons and distresses those around them; Where people live greedily, without gratitude or grace, keeping a ruthless eye on the possessions of others; Where people resort to violence, rape, terrorism and warfare, spreading suffering and accelerating hatreds; Where people suffer disease, handicap or savage injustice without any faith to support them; Where communities of mixed races ache with ugly fears and hatreds and the grief which follows repression or violence; For all who sit with the dying, make funeral arrangements or spend tonight sleepless and grieving, we pray for the gift of divine comfort.
Your new world come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven; through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN