Pause for Prayer: THURSDAY 2/24

 

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These days, Lord,

lots of folks are concerned about the supply chain 

- because our supplies have been cut off!

 

We didn't know how much we depended on this chain

until the linkage failed and all of a sudden 

we couldn't get our hands on whatever we wanted

in the quantity, size, color, flavor, model and edition

our needs demanded and our hearts desired...

 

Who knew the chain could break so easily?

Who ever gave a thought or a prayer

for the millions of men and women,

living links in that chain,

upon whose labor we all depend for so much 

every day of our lives?

And now, perhaps for the first time,

we all can experience, in small ways,

what it means to go without, 

    to know what it means to face

    empty store shelves, empty kitchen cupboards,

    empty closets and empty bellies,

what it means to live in want

    not because the supply chain is broken

    but because it simply never reaches the places

    where millions live in want... 

We need to patient, Lord,

    with the supply chain now failing

    our own first world needs and desires

and hope and pray our experience make us impatient 

    with the plight of those whose needs and wants

    enjoy no links to our usual surplus and plenty...

We pray for this, Lord, 

gratefully trusting in all that links us to you:

    the grace of your redeeming Cross

    and the generous love you call us to share

    with all with whom we're linked

    in the human chain of want and sacrifice,

    of need and generosity,

    of giving of ourselves and all we have

    that others may have life

    and have it to the full...

Amen.

 

 

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