Tag Archives: Gun tragedy

O Holy One, whose house should be a house of prayer and not a place of violence, tenderly gather those who grieve in Texas this day into your loving embrace. Hold in our remembrance those who died protecting others. Be … Continue reading →

O Holy One, comfort, O comfort, your people gathered together from many places — those who call you Emmanuel, Adonai, Allah. Speak tenderly to Pensacola and to parents and friends of those killed — Joshua Kaleb Watson, Mohammed Sameh Haitham, … Continue reading →

O Holy One, comfort, O comfort, your people gathered together from many places — those who call you Emmanuel, Adonai, Allah. Speak tenderly to Pensacola and to parents and friends of those killed — Joshua Kaleb Watson, Mohammed Sameh Haitham, … Continue reading →

God who knits all your children tenderly and with stitches of grace before the day they are born, we pray in sorrow for this birthday tragedy of a young man who killed classmates on his sixteenth birthday. We pray for … Continue reading →

God, we remember with confidence the promise that your home is the one with so many rooms, but this is not the homecoming that we would wish. We pray for tender comfort to surround those who mourn, for gifts of … Continue reading →

God, who holds each soldier of every country tenderly in so many times of risk, be in the midst of those who never expected a colleague to open fire upon them. Comfort those who have lost a friend, member of … Continue reading →

God, who meets us on every road of life, the road to Bethlehem where all children are born, the road to Damascus when we turn our lives around the road to Emmaus as you explain what is really true in … Continue reading →