Here’s another new coronavirus prayer, to help support and encourage you in these challenging times.
For signs of hope, Lord,
thank you.
For easing of restrictions,
thank you.
For greater freedoms,
thank you.
For indications of normality returning,
thank you.
For meeting again with family and friends,
thank you.
For shops reopening,
sports returning,
work restarting,
thank you.
For all the reasons we have to look forward with optimism,
thank you.
Help us, though, to celebrate such things cautiously,
rationally,
wisely,
recognising that the threat is still all too real,
and that it wouldn’t take much to set us back into turmoil.
Help us, then, to be grateful,
but not gullible;
hopeful,
but not irresponsible;
so that the progress made may be continued
and the battle against this virus slowly,
yet inexorably,
be won.
Amen.