Aleppo
Dear God, help us.
What darkness arises out of our brokenness and estrangement from your grace! We continue to devour ourselves and the world around us through the horrors of war, genocide, slavery, and tyranny.
We continue to believe the lie that we are able to engineer our own paradise, a belief that inevitably leads us to doing wicked things to each other because we always end up identifying someone as being expendable in the pursuit of our vision of peace.
Help us with your grace to turn away from the darkness that rages in our hearts and consumes our spirits, turning us into beasts bent only on satisfying our basest desires.
Help us, Lord Jesus, by the gift of the Holy Spirit, to find our life, our hope, our paradise, and our salvation in you, by offering ourselves to God and each other in self-emptying love, your love that makes for peace, empties the darkness in our hearts of any power, and restores us to the life of grace.
We pray for the people of Aleppo. Help us, O Lord our God!
