Lament for a Community:
Remember O Lord what has befallen upon your people.
Look and see our disgrace
The lovely earth you gave us contaminated
Children dying from cancer and rare disease
Communities destroyed by flooding, earthquakes, volcanos, Tsunamis, Tornados, and Fires that You sent to wake us from our sinful ways.
Cities ravaged by a pandemic, Losing lives, businesses, jobs and self worth
We cannot even come together to honor and remember our dead
Our ancestors sinned, they are no more, yet the iniquities of their sins stay with us.
They revered advancement, yet with it they polluted and contaminated the earth.
Our children die not just from bombs, but poisons that have seeped into the earth and water
Reminding us that our ancestors chose to value material possessions and technological advances over You, O Lord
As a frozen wasteland grips us, our brothers and sisters are on the streets rather than our helping them with their mental, physical and financial traumas.
Our streets have burned with the agony caused by our ancestors choosing power over humanity and condemning our brethren to servitude rather than seeing them as equals.
Church spires rising from desolate waters weep for the cities they once rose over, Acknowledging that in the name of progress, our ancestors flooded valleys, burying entire cities
Reminding us that You stood watch over them as our ancestors exercised the free will you gave to them, While waiting for them to return to you.
Have You forgotten us, O Lord? As our ancestors forgot You?
Why do you let our loved ones die from a pandemic that desecrates our land and stretches out before us to hunt our children and our aged
Restore us to you, O Lord
Help us to reclaim the Earth from the destruction ravaged upon it
Renew us, O Lord, as we seek ways to control the pandemic
Restore us to Your grace, O Lord and guide us as in days of old to protect the vulnerable
Restore us to Yourself, O Lord, and let us worship and follow You once more as we did in times gone by.
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