Prayer for the victims of the storm

Heavenly Mother, heavenly Father, I feel your grace in me this evening burning like a million suns. Your hand has risen out of the sky and reshaped the land and turned the world over into chaos. Your power has swept out of the grey heavens and hattered lives, and the earth has risen up to reclaim itself from civilization.

But one by one human beings come forward to be living examples of your love. And from the destruction of the storm in the silent morning human hands rise up to embrace human faces, and the city rebuilds itself. Men and women work together to restore their lives, construct new homes where the old one have been destroyed. The sun rises on a land already in the throes of reconciliation.

The energy of this moment hums in me. The power from the sky and the human heart vibrates in my jaw. Let the peace that comes rushing into my heart this moment rush to the lands that have been decimated by the storm, and in the quiet morning...as the water gently resides and the earth settles back into self healing processes, from the center of this Circle let the breath of God come like a flood of wild white doves, and let us stand in the glory of the sun...and let us be healed in its golden, perfect light.

May God anoint each head that saves a life, hauls away the rubble for a stranger, feeds the displaced, comforts the frightened, rebuilds on the foundations of those stricken, wasted homes. Let this moment be for gratitude, for appreciation, for unconditional love...let this moment be for Humanity.

Let us pray.

You who are greater than us
You who move night into day
Remember your children in the morning
When nature has spent itself
On our fragile lives.

Remember those who have died
And comfort those who have survived
Keep the animals safe, (the children need them)
And help neighbor care for neighbor
Friend care for friend.

In the rubble of this terrible day
Among the ruins of our lives
Let Jesus walk there alive and present
In the hands and hearts of strangers
Family and friends.

We acknowledge the awesome power
That is inherent in this part of Life
But we are grateful for the peace that follows
And the humanity that comes together to help and rebuild
Human face to human face, human heart to human heart.

Bless the people in the Gulf region tonight
And keep them safe
As the day settles
And the storm returns
To the silence of your great and waiting heart.