Bijgaand een gebed dat ik deze week via Peter Millar vanuit
Schotland ontving in verband met de gebeurtenissen in Gaza,
Israël en de Westbank:

“Among the Rubble”
by Jan Sutch Pickard of the Iona Community

Compassionate God,
in our minds, we pray among the rubble,
the unholy mess of demolitions
in the land that we call Holy.

In our hearts we hold
families who have lost their homes,
children who have seen their schools destroyed,
communities which no longer have a clinic.
We pray for them as they weep for all that’s lost.
We pray that they will not lose hope.

And we pray, too, for the men who drive the bulldozers,
soldiers who beat back protesters,
politicians who sign the orders –
aware that such actions destroy their humanity.

Bless those who campaign against injustice;
bless the patient rebuilders;
bless those who hope against hope
that peace with justice will prevail
in the land that we call Holy.