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.
Rev. Vanessa Titang 