Pray for Jerusalem and All Her Children

An important and sobering article on the crisis in Jerusalem: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/20/jerusalem-at-boiling-point-of-polarisation-and-violence-eu-report

Holy God of all peoples, create in your many peoples a clean and compassionate heart.
Turn our hearts to your immeasurable kindness and passion for justice.
Bless this day the peoples of Jerusalem with curiosity and grace, and a desire to live in peace.
Where there is hatred, where there is distrust, sow seeds of tenderness and courage.
Where leaders trade on fear, encourage resistance and revolutionary love.
And hold all the city's children, Arab and Jew, Palestinian and Israeli, Muslim and Christian, in your loving arms, in your holy care.
Amen.