Prayer for Colombia
May each beat of our hearts be a new hymn of thanksgiving raised to You for Colombia and the Colombian people.
Our Lord and God, we bow our knees today before you.
Because of you we are able to stand today, not by ourselves, but by Your grace and strength. We wish to thank You for Your innumerable blessings, which You so abundantly pours out upon us every day. May each beat of our hearts be a new hymn of thanksgiving raised to You for Colombia and the Colombian people.
Lord God, we thank You for the wonderful gifts You bestow upon them. For all the experiences You place in their path. Looking through our earthly eyes we measure ourselves against what You have prepared for us. We experience happiness, joy, fulfillment, but also tragedy, sorrow, pain, ingratitude and injustice. Only to us does it seem that we are able to make a choice and choose what is good for us and oppose what is undesirable.
Lord God, You watch with gentleness our every effort, our desire to control life. Our attempts to stop disasters, catastrophes, suffering, harm and pain. In the silence of your love, you suggest a solution to us. You do not impose, you wait patiently until we are ready to respond to your call. You wait until we are ready to immerse ourselves in the silence of Your Presence.
Lord God, grant us the grace and wisdom to discover the source of inexhaustible joy and peace that does not pass away. Grant us to feel Your Presence, which transforms our hearts, which teaches us Your insight. Amen.
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