Rev. Vanessa Titang

Tag: peace

  • A Prayer for Peace

    A Prayer for Peace

    I have been quiet as yet on the Palestine and Israel conversation being had globally amidst the violence of Hamas attacks and Israel’s response. This is not because I have no thoughts on the matter, but rather because from what I knew, I have not had enough to speak to what is currently happening. I have since done my research. And like so many, I am still lost by the tangle of helplessness my hands make, as I ask, “What can be done?”

    I am often frustrated at the prospect of resorting to prayers alone. Alas, that is not all that is being done in prayer – throwing up our hands. No, it is also a means of working through complex realities to discern what these frustrated hands can, in fact, do for the better, and to call on hope.



    A Prayer for Peace
    (10-16-2023)

    I pray for peace.
    I pray for the Palestinians wanting freedom in their homeland,
    For their safety,
    I pray for the Israeli people
    Too wanting safety in the home where they are,
    I pray for the means of peaceful resolution
    To complicated matters
    Only further complicated by more harm done,
    May the people of this holy place
    Find mercy and means
    Of coming together,
    In resolution
    For the human right
    Of peace.

  • Prayer for an Angry Soul

    Prayer for an Angry Soul

    Angry soul
    may your poison be released,
    Let go,
    May peace wash over and soothe the aching,
    May the burning anguish in your core
    Be made cool,
    May pains in your heart be calmed
    Immerse your being in the safe still waters of peace,
    “Comfort me!” you cry,
    To open loving spirit
    May your anger subside.

  • A Prayer for the Ordinary

    A Prayer for the Ordinary

    In this great heavy time,
    We have faced trials only our ancestors long passed could know,
    We have had great worry laid upon our chests,
    with the turning of the clock,
    Forward
    Into another year,
    Let us find peace,
    And make peace with the days that have passed,
    Let our expectations be as much as we can bear,
    And yet our hope for the future ever growing,
    In this year,
    Let us see life with eyes brand new,
    With an appreciation from the trials faced,
    Of the new day, of a baby’s breath, of the privilege of monotony
    Let us celebrate spirit when the ordinary occurs,
    For oh do we know
    The grief of lost normalcy,
    Let us be joyous
    For it is a new day,
    Joyous,
    For this now is our time,

    Spirit as we awaken
    To the renewed beauty and gift that is life,
    May we find comfort and protection,
    From the world’s great unknowns,
    And knowledge that in our struggles
    We are not alone.