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10 years later 2001

Prayer for September 11th

Dear Lord, loving Creator of us all, we remember with
great sadness those whose lives were taken on September 11,
2001. We hold up to you the victims’ families that they may
know, despite their pain, that they can find solace in your
loving presence. Help them bring their hurting hearts to you, realizing that your everlasting arms
can bear them up and that they cannot be separated from your abiding love.
Please assure us that even though we cannot understand such horrible deeds, you can bring
good out of evil, justice out of injustice and righteousness out of unrighteousness.
Therefore, confessing our human weaknesses, our grief and our struggles to make sense out of
this world, we cry out with the psalmist: “Rise up, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand; do not forget
the oppressed (Psalm 10:12, NRSV). Strengthen our hearts, this day and every day.
Amen.

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