God.

We’re waiting.

We’ve been waiting for minutes and hours and years and centuries.
We’ve been waiting for answers and waiting for healing and waiting for you.
We are anything but peaceful.
We are frustrated and scared and worried and angry.

We confess.
We are mostly scared.
It comes out as the rest.

It’s easy for you, being infinite, to have days and millennia get confused.
It’s easy for you, being infinitely compassionate,
being infinitely sacrificial,
to create as much opportunity as possible for people to come to you.

But to us, it just feels like you aren’t listening.
To us, sometimes, it feels like you do not care.

Help us, God, to be aware enough of you that we trust you.
Help us, God, to understand your presence,
what Jesus called “being with us always, even unto the end of the world.”
Help us, God, to know your peace.

We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

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Reflecting on the scriptures for today: Isaiah 40:1-11, 2 Peter 3:8-15a, Psalm 85