God of refuge, we seek your Protection
Protect the
vulnerable from illness: Those who are old and frail, weakened by years and
struggle, those who care for others, expending their energy and love; those for
whom inability to work means hardship and poverty.
Protect us from the
greed and suspicion: which snatches
at our own security, stock-piling and panic-buying that deprives others of the
necessities of life.
Protect us from the
short-sightedness: which sees the germ in own eyes and ignores the plagues
of hunger, war and violence that take so many lives each day.
Protect us from the
isolation: that leads to loneliness and despair denying the inter-connectedness
that links us to one another.
God our refuge,
in our panic and fear may we not lose sight of our common humanity that makes
us one people in you, in Jesus’ name, we ask. Amen.
