Pray

Deep within, echo the sound

  pray for the depths of peace

    come from the wells within

Deeply met, soul bared

  a prayer for our time

    one for the human family

Hurt is heard far and wide

  grief from the depths of knowing

     pray for peace found in a refugee

Lord, have mercy,

  hear the cries,

    a hurting world lifts up to You

Teach us Your love

  find us in our wounds

    lifting our souls in brokenness 

The offering a hurting world

  has to give, beyond rhetoric,

    beyond defense

Help us to live into the fabric

  of the human family

    where a woman at a well is loved

Deeply, even though she is not

  the same religion,

    only a distant relation

Plant this live in the

  wellspring of our heart

    to strive to be like You. Amen.