Prayer for an End to Violence, War and Death

BY JAMES HUG S.JJuly 20, 2014

O Loving God,

We so often, and for so long, hear the guns and rockets, drones and bombs

We see the pictures of death in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Congo, Nigeria, Sudan and South Sudan, Ukraine, Israel and Palestine, Central African Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, etc…

Wrap all and each of these your people in your love.
Let them hear: “Come to me you who suffer
and are burdened and I will give you rest.”

In these few months of 2014, we have heard the weapons and seen the blood of mass shootings and gang violence…

In Los Angeles and Detroit, Minneapolis and Miami, in Denver and in 138 other cities, towns and villages across our nation.

Wrap all and each of these your people in your love.
Let them hear: “Come to me you who suffer
and are burdened and I will give you rest.”

The bombs are exploding again in Gaza and Israel.

Wrap all and each of these your people in your love.
Let them hear: “Come to me you who suffer
and are burdened and I will give you rest.”

Violence continues hidden in so many homes and families around the world – and the abuse of innocent children….

Wrap all and each of these your people in your love.
Let them hear: “Come to me you who suffer
and are burdened and I will give you rest.”

In so many parts of the world today, the air is tense with
Waiting, uncertainty, insecurity.

From ravaged lands, destroyed by war, Your peoples lift their hands to you.
We pray for stillness, for justice, and for peace to come and to last. We fear that they will not.

Wrap all and each of these your people in your love.
Let them hear: “Come to me you who suffer
and are burdened and I will give you rest.”

O God, our maker, God of Abraham and Sarah, from which three great religions stemmed. We pray for peace.

We pray for peaceful existence between Israelis and Palestinians, Sunnis and Shiites, Muslims, Jews and Christians.

We pray negotiations which can reach the roots of historical conflicts.

We pray for a commitment to human rights by all sides and the protection of all lives.

We pray for effective international intervention to ensure justice for all sides.

We pray for humanitarian aid and rebuilding where destruction has occurred.

We pray for peace and for justice in our homes and on our city streets.

Wrap all and each of these your people in your love.
Let them hear: “Come to me you who suffer
and are burdened and I will give you rest.”

We pray for an end to violence, war and death.

Grant us this, peaceful God. Grant us a peaceful world.

Amen.

Peace Bird

9 replies
    • Joc
      Joc says:

      Pray? The reason for almost every war is religion. My sky genie is better than your sky genie. I believe you meant well; but its religion thats the reason of these wars. For example the dark ages isnt named that because it was cloudy. The Indian killings on the American continent was because they refused to convert to your god. Do away with religion majority of these wars where my Brothers and Sisters died, you do away a reason to fight because most Americans hate Allah and Muslims hate Blond haired blue eyed baby Jesus

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