Sustaining God, we offer an alphabetical litany to You. Please shine Your light on:
- Aged adults who feel isolated in a pandemic…
- Birthing persons…
- Cancelations…
- Delta and other variants of COVID-19 which are highly transmissible and more virulent than the original…
- Ethiopia, where a civil war rages…
- Food pantries…
- Grocery store employees and all other essential personnel…
- Health care systems and those who administer them…
- Iran’s new president, Ebrahim Raisi, whose human rights record has been heavily criticized…
- Joyful celebrations…
- Kisses and kindness…
- Loneliness…
- Mamas (Mums) and Papas (Dads)…
- Nurses…
- Olympians, the 11,000+ athletes representing more than 200 countries—with honorary mention of those countries represented by just 2 athletes apiece: Andorra, Bermuda, Brunei, the Central African Republic, Dominica, Lesotho, the Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Nauru, Somalia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, South Sudan, Tuvalu…
- Postponements…
- Qualifications and questions…
- Reunions and re-openings…
- Separations of families caused by migration, divorce, death, estrangement…
- Terrorism (its victims and its perpetrators) …
- Universities and all other institutions of learning …
- Vaccination efforts, especially in countries like Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo where less than 1% of the population has received full protection…
- Wildfires and weariness…
- Xenophobia…
- Young persons…
- Zoom fatigue…
Lord, hear our prayers.
We thank you for the ways we have learned to cope with grief and anxiety, for the communities we have built, and for the grace we have received. We lift up all of the losses of the pandemic and pray for those who are suffering still. We pray for the 200 million persons who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and for everyone who cares for them.
May we find light in the litany of our own lives. Amen.
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