Study for Lent

Our study group utilised the workshop in “Friends and Enemies”by Ruth Burgess  on Haiku Prayer to help us write some prayers of our own.

The earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the loss they brought was very much on our minds.

The result was these two prayers, in the longer 31 syllable Haiku style.

1. Give hope to Japan
   In grief and desolation
   God calls us to pray
   For families torn apart
   For a nation healed again.
    
2. Sudden death and loss
   horrific devastation
   out of fear comes calm
   Communities made homeless
   God wrap your arms around them.