God's intervention through his people's prayers

Well, Lord of heaven & Earth, your ways of Grace

& Power that is wielded in its time,

please give your people wisdom to embrace

the suffering that's needful, not sublime;

and also good petitions to the court

of heaven where you rule over the lot,

and somehow just the same on  Earth (though fraught

with problems that our understanding's got).

Please help us so to stand, and to entrust

ourselves and all the causes that must mean,

because of where you've put us, so we must

affect the ones around, & in between.

... T.B.C.

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