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.
Hear my prayer, Lord, for scientists
Hear my prayer, Lord, for scientists,
for all involved in seeking a vaccine against coronavirus,
a way of releasing us from its stranglehold,
from the threat it poses to the elderly and vulnerable.
Guide them in their research,
in their experiments,
in their early trials with volunteers,
and keep them and all who work with them safe.
Give them insight into the nature of this disease –
into the way it develops,
the way it spreads,
the way it affects the human body,
and help them to unravel its secrets
so as to find solutions effectively to combat it.
Grant that, through their efforts,
we may look forward soon to a time when this pandemic is consigned to history,
and it presents a danger no longer.
Amen.