28. April 2019
You are a God of love, peace and mercy. We come to you because you are a fountain and a source of love. Help us to love and care for each other, especially those who are poor. Help us to care for each other so that all the barriers that exist between rich and poor, old and young, angry and gentle, first world and third world may be dismantled. Give to each of us listening hearts in such a way that the pain, hurt and cries of your people may enable us to respond and move forward following your example, healing them as we heal ourselves. Bind us together, Lord, powerful countries as well as poor countries, that we may work for peace. Hear our prayers from the land of Africa, the land full of blood, genocide, political killings, instability. Women are raped in thousands; help us to see your image in them. Help us, God of love, to hear others. Amen.
Maake J. Masango, South Africa