14 Tishrei 5778

Dear Heavenly Father,

Praised are you my Lord and may your Holy Name be praised in the heavens above and on the earth below for ever and ever.

Thank you for bringing me to this day, for waking me and breathing life into my soul.  Thank you for blessing me with one more day to spend with those I love and one more chance to be your light in this world.  Father, please grant me the strength and the wisdom to walk in your word and to show your love.  Please fill my heart with mercy so that I may be forgiving of others just as you have been forgiving of me.  Father, may you never remove your face from before me and may you guard my feet from turning to the right or the left on the path you have set.  Father, I pray with all my heart that your will be done here on earth just as it is done in heaven.  May your glory be our shining light forever.

Father, please heal this world from the violence that has overrun it.  We are in the days of Noah, Sodom, and Gomorrah.  We are at the point of Nineveh, when you sent Jonas to warn them of their doom.  Father, I pray for your mercy and your strength.  Please don't destroy us, but help us.  Help us to be better people.  Help us to be kinder to one another.  Help us to respect each other.  Help us to remember that we were once strangers in a strange land, a land where you plucked us up and delivered us to a different land, a land that you promised to our ancestors - a land flowing with milk and honey.  Must we always go through a tribulation in order to gain peace?  It seems as if nothing is new under the sun, and what once was, will be again.  Father, I pray you protect the innocent and the righteous, but all the wicked, it is time to lay them low my Lord.  Please remind the world that you are our God, you are the One who created the heavens and the earth.  You are the Potter and we are but the lump of clay that you formed and to whom you gave life.

Blessed are you O Lord our God who delivers his people to his Kingdom.

Amen!