It’s Election Day in the US, and we were moved by petitions from overseas during a staff-wide prayer meeting yesterday. CT data architect Jung Kun Song read five Korean prayers about political struggles and prayed them for the US election. 

It was a meaningful recentering in remembering not just God’s faithfulness to us but also his faithfulness in countries around the world in painful political divisions throughout history (including throughout the Old Testament, as Jung Kun noted).

One of the prayers was about Korea divided between North and South but seems to also apply to our current moment of tension: 

O God of peace and reconciliation, we bring before you our divided homeland. The pain of separation weighs heavily on our hearts, and we long for the day when our people will be united as one family again. Grant wisdom to our leaders and soften the hearts of those in power so that they may work toward peace, not conflict. 

We ask for your comfort and hope for those who have been separated from their loved ones and for your healing for the scars left by war. Guide us to be peacemakers, and let our land be a place of unity and love. In your mercy, we pray for the reunification … so that our people may once again be one. Amen.