A Prayer for the Headlines for Monday, February 27th

Good morning, God

The international headlines are interesting these days, Lord.  Greece has been saved from insolvency (and we know the relief that brings!); there is a report about how men disfigure women with acid in Pakistan when they are dissatisfied with their women in some way and there is the report out of Spain about how workers collect unemployment benefits even while earning wages both on and under the table (and we know about this, also!).

Lord, the world – the entire world – needs your way desperately.  Your simple plan, if put into practice world-wide, would eliminate the cheating, the harming of each other, the “expecting something for nothing” attitude.  Your simple plan, if we would follow it, would make you our Supreme Leader, would give us respect for each person, would give us irrefutable standards to which to hold ourselves as individuals.  Your simple plan would, at the very least, cause us to respect each other – if not love each other. 

Lord, may we better follow your Ten Commandments and know a life lived well.

In Jesus’ name, Amen