Friday, April 15, 2011

Dearest God,

O Lord, all the natural disasters seem worse than ever before. I know I have brought it up before but what does it all mean? Are these just random cases of the earth gone crazy or something more? Every earthquake, tornado, flood, cyclone, hurricane, and tsunami seem to be the worst they have ever been. It's almost like the globe is regurgitating the evil so prevalent around the world.

What do we tell our children and grandchildren? What do we say to them about evil and corruption, the lack of humanity from one person to another, and the abuse and misuse of the most vulnerable in society? What do we say to them?

How do we turn it all around? How do we bring peace to the planet? How do we return love, kindness, compassion, mercy, and authentic care to all your children? How do we replace meanness, faithlessness, disregard, fear-producing acts, and stone-cold attitudes, beliefs and actions before we destroy our shared home and each other? How do we stop it? How do we develop genuine, loving hearts that truly care about our neighbor and our self? Only with your grace can we achieve any kind of transformation.

Change us,
O God,
renew the face
of the world.
Show us
the way
to peace,
harmony, and
charity to all.
Time is
running out;
too many people
are being hurt.
Pour out
your love
so that
we may
use that love
to heal
one another
and ourselves,
I pray.

Love, Andrea