Here’s another prayer – featured now in my free e-book For Such a Time as This – that may help you to find words to articulate some of your thoughts and fears when you’re struggling to pray during these dark days of the coronavirus pandemic, reminding you that, however much it may feel like it, you are not alone.
I can’t believe it, Lord
I can’t believe it, Lord.
The world turned on its head so quickly,
so unexpectedly.
One moment, everything normal,
proceeding much as it had always done before,
and the next,
chaos and confusion,
everything overturned in an instant,
institutions teetering on the brink,
certainties crumbling into dust,
lives descending into mayhem.
I’d thought I could plan ahead,
fashion what the future held in store,
but I realise now how wrong I was:
that though we can control much,
we cannot control everything,
our ultimate destiny lying not in our hands
but in yours.
Grant your guidance,
show us the path to take,
and lead us through this crisis.
Amen.