A prayer for the twenty-first Sunday in ordinary time

God.

I have asked you this week for an awareness of your presence and your peace and your courage. And sometimes, for healing.

In the presence of terrified people and sad people, I’ve asked.

And today we together ask again.

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But we want to ask with right hearts and minds.

And I confess, we confess, we’re often not thinking and feeling in accord with you.

When we read Paul’s words, his direction to put on armor, we sometimes imagine we are fighting people. That we are c...