Prayer for Central America – Hurricane Iota

God, who lets us track no storm alone,
we pray for Central America,
already devastated by Eta,
and facing Iota’s winds and floods.

We pray for Honduras and Nicaragua,
battered again today,
with more loss and mudslides
and the dangers of shelters in pandemic,
and we pray for the Bay Islands
Providencia and San Andreas,
islands where no hurricane
has ever struck before,
who face this totally unprepared.

We pray for today’s rescuers
where there is flash flooding,
storm surge and fear,
and we pray for those grieving
the hurricane losses of both storms,
in this upheavaled November,

for Florida, the Carolinas,
Virginia, Panama, Guatemala,
El Salvador, the Yucatán, Jamaica
Cuba, the Cayman Islands.

We pray for all the tomorrows
of rebuilding and feeding,
caring for the injured
and those endangered by virus,

for we know that not an Iota,
ever will path away from your love,

which comes with a landfall of hope
for this year of huge storms
and for the smallest child
hunting in the rubble for a toy.

amen