WAITING  FOR  GOD

Poem for Today - December 9, 2014

GOD OF THE WAITING

God of the waiting,
give us courage to wait with those

in the most broken
places of the world,

and with all those who struggle

to be bearers of hope there.

We pray with those

who wait for wars to stop,

for violence to cease.

God of the waiting,

turn conflict into peace.

And we pray for those

who have given up

on the coming of hope,
because they feel they wait in vain
at checkpoints, at borders, for jobs, for food,
and for all those whose lives are crushed

under the structures and systems of injustice.

God of the waiting, wait with your world.
Turn anger into reconciliation,
and our lack of hope into courage,
so that our waiting may be over 
and all the things of darkness shall be no more.

© Nina Carey