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God of locked doors

by Debbie O'Brien

15 June 2020

God of locked doors

God of locked doors ………….

Locked in, locked out …………

Detention centres

Jobs

Homes

Shielding

More than 70 years old

alone

 

We who have locked our hearts and minds

In anger and hurt

Prejudice

Fear of the other, of being different

Guilt and shame

Confused ignorance

Unconscious privilege

 

Jesus, come and stand among us

Breathe

Courage

Strength

Clarity

Trust

togetherness

 

Blessed are those who have not seen and believe

And accompany

 

You have no body here on earth but ours

To go, to speak, to listen, to drive, to challenge

In detention centres

With food deliveries

On mobile phones

Governments and policies

Keepers of inequality

In zoom meetings to encourage and pray

 

Because to pray is to

imagine gods future here, now

infuse now, with hope

protest and clamour for justice

be with

resist despair, greed, injustice

believe your kingdom come, your will be done

here, on earth, as in heaven

 

God of unlocking

Hear our prayer


Debbie accompanies JRS’s refugee friends in her role as an Emergency Response Team volunteer at the Jesuit Refugee Service UK.

This prayer is part of the ‘JRS Imagines’ anthology, for Refugee Week. You can read more from the collection here.

Find out more about what’s happening at JRS UK during Refugee Week


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Jesuit Refugee Service UK
The Hurtado Jesuit Centre
2 Chandler Street, London E1W 2QT

020 7488 7310
uk@jrs.net

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