A prayer for the twenty-second Sunday in ordinary time.

God.

We think we talk to you all the time. We ask you for protection for family in the path of the hurricane. We ask you to keep our loved one from dying in the emergency room. We ask you for jobs and health and money and relief.

Then we talk about you showing up.
Or we talk about you not listening.
Or we talk about our prayer not working.

God, I’m not sure that we show up to you.
I’m not sure we are listening for you.

I’m not sure that our prayer works. Because I’m not sure that we ...