Reflection for May 20

From Bishop Lee:

The city of Chicago is awash with preparation for the NATO Summit.... The Bible has a lot to say about [the issues raised by the summit]: money, fear and violence. While we may be unsettled by the NATO Summit and the conflict it engenders, as Christians, we cannot turn our back on it. But we can pray.

Grant, O God, that your holy and life-giving Spirit may so move every human heart, and especially the hearts of the leaders who gather now in Chicago, that barriers which divide us may crumble, suspicions disappear, and hatreds cease; that our divisions being healed, we may live in justice and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen (Book of Common Prayer, 823).