A prayer for the twenty-fifth Sunday in ordinary time

God.

Sometimes we feel like we could weep all the time because of the pain we see around us. Sometimes we feel like we are crushed.

Sometimes we feel like weep like Jeremiah wept.

And we struggle to know how to talk to you.

Because Paul tells Timothy to pray for those in authority and Jeremiah weeps because of the destruction that came from those in authority.

Paul tells Timothy that God wants all people to be saved and Jeremiah weeps because of the crushing of the people of Go...