Faslane Prayer

Sustaining God
as everything with breath sings out in praise;
your indiscriminate love and care
for all Earth’s web of life,
overwhelms us,
Christ’s teaching of the priority
of love for enemies
disarms us
And the transforming power
of the Wild Wind the Spirit
fills us with courage to attend
to a story so different
from those of power and Empire,
these eighty years, since all doubt fled
of what’s at stake with nuclear weapons.
So we long for a security built on trust,
on negotiation
not eradication:
A story built on costly integrity,
rather than violent hypocrisy driven by fear.
As people of faith, we do not hide: we make it plain
that the name of Christ cannot be enlisted
to bless or even condone such evils as are guarded
behind these barriers;
Guarded conscientiously by our fellow citizens,
with lives and loves and families of their own.
And faith.
Thus we pray too, for them, with them;
with urgent love, with understanding,
for change of hearts and minds
for all who are caught up
in this self-defeating project;
We pray that they may set aside the tools
of Earth’s destruction
and attend instead
to the care of our Common Home,
already groaning and suffering
from the damage committed
both knowingly and unjustly
through fossil fuels, through waste,
and the dogged refusal
to attend to the voice and the rights
of the poor, the planet
and to all those with whom
your rainbow covenant still stands.
AMEN