Let Us Pray
Let us pray for the families who have lost loved ones and little ones at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
Let us hold our own children and family members closer as we remember those who cannot do so today.
Let us pray with our work to make this world safer for all children and reaffirm our sacred obligation to protect the weak from the strong, the many who are peaceful from the few who are violent, the innocent young from the actions of reckless and dangerous adults.
Let us hope for healing in this time when healing seems unimaginable.
Let us love one another with a deeper appreciation of the sacred worth of every child and every human being knowing that when we do so there is a power greater than ourselves that can renew, restore and sustain us.
Rev. Chris Buice
This prayer was offered by Rev. Chris Buice of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville in response to the recent shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. A shooting at that congregation in 2008 inspired the creation of the Standing on the Side of Love campaign.
