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Prayer offered by Jedd Medefind,
Director of DOL Office of Faith Based Initiatives,
Fifth Anniversary of 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony,
Washington, D.C.,
Monday, September 11, 2006

Our God and Father,

Perhaps nothing speaks more honestly of our sorrow than silence.

So we stand hushed with our nation, still feeling the weight of what occurred five years ago this morning. We see billowing smoke, crumbling towers, wreckage in a field, and other images that cannot be erased.

We weep with those who wept, and with those who still do: the widows and widowers, children without fathers and mothers, grieving friends and parents who continue to carry the deep ache of loss.

We ask that you would wrap them in your love, and that we would do the same in whatever ways we can.

We are reminded that we live in times of consequence, and that you have put us in places of consequence. So we pray that we may be faithful to the times and tasks that you have given us.

You know our faults, our failures, both as individuals and as a nation. So we come to you humbly.

But we pray boldly that you would still use us. That light would spill into dark places. That perfect love would cast out fear. That true liberty would be known not only in our land, but across the world. And that you would bring good even from acts that were intended for evil.

We pray this in your name.

Amen

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