Ok - getting back on schedule, here is the prayer for today.  And I do have to say that while I'm not using it today, I do love the passage from Exodus - Moses' sister speaking up and asking Pharaoh's daughter if she should get someone to look after the baby for her!

And I have to say that I like this vision from Isaiah better than the bit from 2 Chronicles 7:14 about how "if my people will humble themselves and pray and seek my face...." because obviously (to me, at least) we (as a species and even perhaps as individuals) are not going to do that, and salvation is just going to have to be God's business or it isn't going to happen at all.  (IMHO)

So - the prayer

 God over all,

we see wildfire smoke in the heavens

and the earth wearing out like an old shirt with a frayed collar,

and people dying (and being bombed and killed left and right) 

it says "like gnats" but I find that just too hard to say!

We confess that too often we have refused 

to let you transform and renew our minds,

but have instead continued to be conformed to this age.

We have thought more highly of ourselves

than we ought to have thunk.

But now finally we lift our eyes 

looking for your "forever" salvation

and for your never ending deliverance. 

Help us see, and believe, and live.