Ever calling, Ever-reaching God, we are grateful that you never give up on your longing to bring us into your love and care.
Yet we resist, choosing to scatter or to run towards other people, places, or ideas whicch slyly lure us with false promises of security and love. Continue to call us, until we finally run to you to be captured by your embrace, finally recognizing that we are your beloved children, each and every one of us.
Continue to call all to live under your wings of love and ways until we finally are united as your family there. For there are so many people, so many places where foxes still lure us and others into danger and pain. Hear us now as we ask seek your care and shelter for a few of those on our heart.
The continuing invasion of the Ukraine by Russia pains us for all involved. Bring them into your refuge providing, healing, reconciliation and your true peace that can never be found in guns or missiles. Continue to call us as peacemakers, until the day when your children no longer see each other as predators or prey.
We are grateful that the number of CoVID cases has decreased. Remind us that even as the numbers of cases decrease, there are still many who are experiencing the devastating effects of this disease months afterwards "recovering". Keeping us mindful and caring of them when we rather push them aside so we can forget the pain of these past two years.
Where we have scattered not only from you but from each other, ready to fight each other than rather join together under your love to face our challenges together, keep calling us back to you, and to each other.
For those who are hurting in body, mind or spirit, who are grieving losses of loved ones and all kind, bringing them into the shelter of your presence to find a place where they can pour out all they feel from anger to sadness to peace to joy, all the while knowing you care.
We lift up these prayers, as well as the unspoken ones of our hearts and minds in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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