Sometimes you just don't know what to do. The world suddenly seems unsafe, or what is asked of us is just too much, or the mess we humans can make of each others' lives becomes an undertow that drags against hope. Bonhoeffer knew such experiences, and at the end of a sermon preached in 1932 just before the Nazi takeover in Germany, he lapsed into the discourse of prayer, psalm type prayer:
Do not let us sink with these bits and pieces upon which we are drifting. Do not let it be eternally foggy and cold around us. Show us the light of your Resurrection in all of the darkness of the cross...We who are children of the world, men and women of work, of action, we stand before you, God and pray. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are fixed on you...Hear us O Lord.
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