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.
Lord, it’s hard to see any good coming from the crisis we’re facing
Lord, it’s hard to see any good coming from the crisis we’re facing,
this time that is bringing such anxiety,
such heartache,
and such hardship
to so many.
Yet if one useful thing might come out of it,
let it be this:
that we learn –
as individuals,
as a nation,
as a world –
from the experience,
and so be better equipped in the future
should similar or worse threats to our health arise.
May lessons from these dark days equip us, if need be,
to respond more effectively,
provide more meaningfully,
and help more swiftly in times ahead.
Open our eyes to the best and the worst in all that is happening now,
and enable us truly to learn from both.
Amen.