A prayer for the fourth Sunday of Easter

God.

We are having a hard time.

Many of us are condemning ourselves.

“I don’t know what to think,” we say.

“I can’t figure out who to trust.”

Many of us are condemning others. Even each other.

“If someone believes that,” we say, “I don’t even know how to talk to them.”

Many of us aren’t even sure how to trust you, because of the things that we’ve been told that you say, because of the things we’ve been taught that it means to follow you.

But God, you do love us.

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