Pandemic Prayer

 

Pandemic Prayer

For the doubters and deniers.

For the angry.

For those who are anti-lockdown, anti-mask, anti-vax, anti-distancing,

anti-government.

For those who fear and mistrust.

For the negative ones.

The failing, the falling, the fumbling.

For the protestors.

For those who yell

“sheep, lefty, liberal, follower, communist”.

Who use words like ‘hoax’ and ‘freedom’, who tout ‘the church is essential’, who twist the word ‘love’ to mean what they want.

For the unhappy, the unsure, the unwitting, the unwilling.

The undecided.

This:

In the midst of a pandemic,

we’ve seen mistrust and anger.

Mistrust and anger in abundance.

Unceasing, like a clanging bell.

Slowly losing momentum it will exhaust itself.

Those who see first hand,

who know someone who gets sick, who seek the advice of their doctor,

who are tired of defending a precarious position that is uncertain, ill-founded, groundless,

slipping away.

Squeezed dry.

Dying out.

Take heart - there is hope.

Bottle up your rage.

Push aside your negativity.

Let your doubts

fall away.

Be willing to hear.

Open your eyes to a ray of light.

There is hope to be found in the doctor who spent ten years in medical school.

The ER nurse.

Hope in the researcher, the physicist, the chemist, the lab-technician, the hospital staff.

Turn to your God

wherever that might be.

In the forest,

the night sky,

the candlelit room,

in solitude or hand in hand.

Be open to seeing more clearly.

To understanding.

To change.

Be the change.

#annerenouf - September ‘21