Tonight, I pray for those who are unemployed, that they may receive what they need. We know that for everyone who is counted as unemployed, there is another person who has stopped looking for work, because of hopelessness, or who is employed only part-time when what they really want and need is full-time work.
Unemployment is officially now at 9.8%, but the real figures are probably much higher. Many economists expect that in the next months, the official unemployment rate will increase to double digits. I wonder what people will do. How will they stay sheltered? Have the food they need? Keep a vehicle running so they can look for work? Afford health care? What will those who are comfortably employed do in relation to their unemployed family members, neighbors, community members? How will we respond? How can all of us be conduits of the grace of God? How will we work with spiritual leaders, corporations, and governmental structures to care for one another?
May we find it in our hearts to pray, to share, to love, to companion, to offer whatever we have or whatever we think might help. Oh, dear God, "thy kingdom come, thy will be done." Here. Now.
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