Prayer for
War
by Rev. Fred F. Keip
God of the earth and endless sand on which our young women and men
now stand, of the sky which surrounds our bombers, of the sea which
cradles our warships, we offer you this prayer for war:
Grant us the strength to wage a war of extinction against stupidity,
greed, the quest for dominance and the arrogance of those who seek it,
as we ourselves sometimes do.
Make a wasteland of our desire for conquest and our invasive greed.
Visit upon us a plague of love that will infect our hearts and decimate
our violence and hatred.
Let the body count run high in such a war, until all your children--all
of us--can look each other in the eye, and embrace one another as sisters
and brothers of one human family.
Give us this war, Oh God, to end all war, a war that will consume us
with your presence rampant within the human spirit, in a world that
at last shall know no bounds to love, no boundaries to caring, and no
end to that peace which passes all understanding.
