Here’s another new coronavirus prayer, to help support and encourage you in these challenging times.
Lord,
we dare to believe that things are improving;
that the crisis we’ve been facing is under control
and that the end may finally be in sight.
Help us now then to rebuild –
cautiously
thoughtfully
and patiently;
to work
boldly,
creatively
and constructively
for a safer world;
to strive sensitively
fairly
and wisely
for a more just society
in which the contributions of all are recognised and rewarded.
Save us from simply cobbling a future together,
from knee-jerk responses that ultimately solve nothing.
Grant that something better and stronger may emerge from the traumas we’ve faced,
and that the suffering,
sorrow,
heartache
and loss
endured by so many
will not have all been for nothing.
Amen.