Here’s another new coronavirus prayer, to help support and encourage you in these challenging times.
We pray, Lord,
not for easy answers,
for there aren’t any;
not for a straightforward road ahead,
there isn’t one;
not for instant solutions,
for they don’t exist;
not for some miracle cure,
for we know developing a vaccine will take time;
not for an overnight economic recovery,
for we understand that can’t happen;
not for untroubled times ahead,
for we recognise that’s wholly unrealistic.
We pray, rather, for strength to face whatever demands the future may bring
to rise to the challenge and do everything in our power –
as a nation and as a world –
to pick up the pieces and start again,
ensuring, as far as possible, that whatever trials some may endure,
they will not be left to cope with them alone.
Amen.