March 10, 2009

Here is today’s prayer:

Lord Jesus Christ, you are the way of peace.
Come into the brokenness of our lives and our land
with your healing love.
Help us to be willing to bow before you in true repentance,
and to bow to one another in real forgiveness.
By the fire of your Holy Spirit, melt our hard hearts
and consume the pride and prejudice which separates us.
Fill us, O Lord, with your perfect love, which casts out our fear,
And bind us together in that unity
which you share with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
-Cecil Kerr, Northern Ireland, 20th cent. (BOW 482)

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