This week, as we lament in preparation for peace, we pray for our city in a prayer for the church. Let us join together through these words adapted from Ernest Campbell.
Hear us now, O Father, as we pray for Dallas, Texas; praying for it, not from without, as though its dust and noise and pain were beneath us or beyond us, but from within, as your church, as those who know its squeeze and take to heart its burned-out hopes and embedded divisions.
Grant that fences that keep potential friends apart may be fashioned into bridges so that the hurts of any may concern all.
Help us to look for you and find you in the lives we live and the work we do.
O God, for whom all time and place are your habitation, be our God for we would be your people.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.