A prayer for the seventh Sunday after the Epiphany.

God

We tell ourselves and each other to be still before you.
We tell each other and ourselves to be patient.
We hear that those who do evil will not last,
but we can’t be still and be patient when there is so much anger and fear,
when there are people losing their lives because of our inhumanity.

Or maybe because of our humanity.

We beg you for justice and deliverance
Begging like Joseph must have begged, for year after year after year,
betrayed by brothers, alone in Egypt.

And yet, whe...