Prayer for July 20, 2021

Prayer for July 20, 2021: Please pray with me. God of Shalom, we need you. Shalom is about wholeness and completeness in all of creation. Shalom is what you have always been about. Righteousness and justice are really about Shalom. Yet we are addicted to division. We have a sick fascination with separating people into “us” and “them.” We think our identity is small and limited and so we have to limit others too. We think that our identity only comes by our association with others just like us. Really, we craft our identities based on how we are not “them,” who ever “them” happen to be. We find all sorts of…