A prayer for the twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

God.

We are weary and worried and wishful.

We are weary from all the voices and all the choices and all the things that break.
We are worried from all the stories of what might go wrong and who might go wrong.
We are wishful for escape and order and answers.

We’re not sure whether it helps to know that your people have been weary and worried and wishful for thousands of years.

When we know that this is human, it is a little helpful.
When we know that you haven’t fixed it yet, it’s no...