A Prayer for Today

Rev. Rob Mossis, vicar of Christ the King Lutheran Church, 

at Sunday night's prayer vigil in Connecticut:

"We bring to you 20 new stars in the heavens, 

20 new saints, 

20 new angels. 

We bring to you 

those who risk their lives for us everyday not counting the cost, 

and we bring to you those who died, 

those who counsel,

 those who bless and embrace 

the confused and the broken. 

And now in this prayer, 

we bring to you ourselves, 

our questions, 

our doubts, 

our anger and our hearts, 

and we pray for the peace, 

the hope and the renewal of trust 

that can come only from a God 

who first conceived us in love 

and places a hand of compassion 

on each of our shoulders 

even in the most trying times. 

And so tonight for our community (and our country), 

a community (and a country) deeply pained, 

we ask you to heal our brokenness, 

to answer our questions, 

to replace our doubts with certainty, 

our anger with peace 

and our hurt with and healing…"