PRAYER FOR OUR POLITICIANS IN STORMONT

Lord, give them humility

To be honest with their own failings

And willing to confess their complicity

To not seek to be dominant

But to strive for equality

And the common good

Lord give them humility.

 

Lord give them grace

To listen to the other

To be the first to reach out

To forgive unconditionally

To listen to the other’s narrative

And seek to understand their perspective

And the pressures coming from their community

Lord give them grace.

 

Lord give them vision

Of how it can be 

Rather than how it has been, and is

Of what it might look like

To love neighbour and even enemy

For the last to be first and the first to be last

For peace and well being for ALL.

Lord give them vision.

 

Lord may they first of all be pastoral

And then may they be prophetic

And finally may the political be added, benefitting ALL.