Committing our Ways to the Lord

In today’s responsorial psalm, Psalm 37, we pray: “Commit to the Lord your way; trust in him, And he will act.”

Lord,  I commit the following realities to you, trusting that you will act:

• The leaders of all nations who push forward  executive actions or legislation that will oppress the poor and line the pockets of the wealthy with privileges they do not need
• Immigrants threatened with deportation and persons not allowed refuge in the U.S. because of persons judging them as evil and as a detriment to our country without due process
• The poor, the underprivileged, the unemployed or underemployed whose right for a fair wage is being denied
• Our nations and nations throughout the world who will be harmed by those who deny climate change and refuse to do what is in our power to reverse damages to the environment
• Persons insisting on building walls and not bridges whereby we work together for the common good and engage in fair trade practices

Lord, as we pray in Psalm 37, I believe that you will “make justice dawn…like the light” and that “bright as the noonday shall be…[the] vindication”  of those oppressed by  any decision or legislation that violates human rights of any person, born or unborn.  I believe that “the salvation of the just is from [You,] Lord; [that You] are their refuge in time of distress.” I believe, that it is the Lord who”helps them and delivers them; [that it is You, O Lord, who] delivers them from [those engaged in wicked practices] and saves them, because they take refuge in you.”