A Prayer for a Pandemic
God of light
and God of mystery,
give us the faith to see you
in the grey dimness
of this time.
Give us the heart to hear,
in the silence of the sick,
the call to care for those
in pain.
Give us the courage
to find you
where you do not now
appear to be.
Give us the trust it takes
to make our way
through this uncertainty,
this fear,
this seemingly irredeemable sense of limitless loss
to the recognition
of the relentless hope
that each seasonal cycle
of life
confirms in us.
You who made all things
for our good and our growth
show us, too, now
the power of darkness
so that we might see newly—
beyond the ephemeral—
to what are really
the gloriously important things
in life.
Amen
— Joan Chittister, OSB
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