Day 33: October 17, 2013
Imagine sons as sunflowers reaching their full autumn height. These magnificent plants share seeds, oil, and healing properties pulling radioactive contaminants from the soil.
Imagine daughters sturdy and beautiful as founding beams of homes and institutions: supporting the full thriving of all the world’s children, drawing in the exile, and responding to cries of distress.
Psalm 144 offers these hopeful images, a hope rooted in God. To pray with these few verses is to root our hope in the God who seeds our prayers with longing and harvests our peaceful actions.
Creator God, with your help we can see the world’s children fruitful as sunflowers and sturdy as foundations for the future. We see all children nurtured in love and safety. Help us refuse to seed the world with guns and violence. Help us fully accept our one responsibility: creating a peaceful, just world for all children. Amen.
Rev. Susan Meeter
Pastor
Mira Vista United Church of Christ
El Cerrito, CA
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