Eternal God, our Father, at this moment we are compelled to prayer. Break through the routine of it, the formality of it, the mere words - and make us to know the power of Your Presence.
We are needy people. We call on you Lord but we don't do the things that you have said. We say we love but we don't keep your commandments. The songs of faith are on our lips but our hearts do not sing. We play with our earthly toys as if they were all that mattered. We spend our money for that which is not bread and our labor for things that don't satisfy us. We use our time as if it were our own and as if there were no death and no eternity.
Break through, O Lord, break through, and let us see ourselves for what we are. Then we shall cry out for mercy. And you have promised that mercy will be given and grace to cover all our sins and to make us new in thought, word and deed.
What we ask for ourselves, we ask for all people. We ask especially for the country that we love. Cleanse our national policy. Prepare our chosen leaders for the task ahead and make them and us God fearing people. Keep alive our hope for peace and may we seek peace and pursue it. May we do more than remember those that died. May we seek to make their death the way to life for all people, for you made the death of your Son the way to life for all of us.
And now, Father, we wait for your blessing. Bless the Gospel and make it find its way to our bodies, minds and spirits, making us whole again and giving us the victory over sin and death.
We pray in the name that is above every name. Amen.
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