{"id":7144,"date":"2011-03-02T13:12:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=7144"},"modified":"2011-03-02T13:12:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:12:39","slug":"prayer-after-an-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/03\/02\/prayer-after-an-earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer after an Earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Issued for the 2 minute silence 12.51 pm NZ, 1 March,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dn.anglican.org.nz\/news\/news_update.html\">Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>PRAYER AFTER AN EARTHQUAKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>Oh God, at times such as this,<br \/>\nwhen we realize that the ground beneath our feet<br \/>\nis not as solid as we had imagined, we plead for your mercy.<\/div>\n<p>As the things we have built crumble about us,<br \/>\nwe know too well how small we truly are<br \/>\non this ever-changing, ever-moving, fragile planet we call home.<br \/>\nYet you never forget us.<\/p>\n<p>Oh God, come to our assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Today, so many people are afraid.<br \/>\nThey wait in fear of the next tremor.<br \/>\nThey hear the cries of the injured amid the rubble.<br \/>\nThey roam the streets in shock at what they see.<br \/>\nAnd they fill the dusty air with wails of grief and the names of missing dead.<\/p>\n<p>Comfort them, Oh God, in this disaster.<br \/>\nBe their rock when the earth refuses to stand still,<br \/>\nand shelter them under your wings when homes no longer exist.<\/p>\n<p>Embrace in your arms those who died so suddenly in this tragedy.<br \/>\nConsole the hearts of those who mourn,<br \/>\nand ease the pain of bodies on the brink of death.<\/p>\n<p>Fill our hearts with compassion,<br \/>\nwe who watch from afar,<br \/>\nas the poorest on this side of the earth<br \/>\nfind only misery upon misery.<br \/>\nMove us to act swiftly this day,<br \/>\nto give generously every day, to work for justice always,<br \/>\nand to pray unceasingly for those without hope.<\/p>\n<p>And once the shaking has ceased,<br \/>\nthe images of destruction have stopped filling the news,<br \/>\nand our thoughts return to life\u2019s daily rumblings,<br \/>\nlet us not forget that we are all your children<br \/>\nand they, our brothers and sisters.<br \/>\nWe are all the work of your hands.<\/p>\n<p>For though the mountains leave their place<br \/>\nand the hills be tossed to the ground, your love shall never leave us,<br \/>\nand your promise of peace will never be shaken.<\/p>\n<p>Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.<br \/>\nBlessed be the name of the Lord, now and forever.\u00a0 Amen<\/p>\n<p><em>Author unknown<\/em><\/p>\n<p>See, <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/02\/23\/pray-for-christchurch\/\">Pray for Christchurch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issued for the 2 minute silence 12.51 pm NZ, 1 March,\u00a0\u00a0Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia: PRAYER AFTER AN EARTHQUAKE Oh God, at times such as this, when we realize that the ground beneath our feet is not &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/03\/02\/prayer-after-an-earthquake\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7152,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions\/7152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}