A prayer for the seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

God

We don’t understand.

At any given moment around this hospital those words describe someone’s heart.

We don’t understand why the treatment isn’t working. Or why it is working.

We don’t understand why they are still together after 68 years. Or why this relationship isn’t working.

We don’t understand why so many things are happening to us right now.

We don’t understand what the next step is, what you are trying to do here, why “you took” their child, his joy, her pain.

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