Prayer Offered for June 13, 2019

Yesterday would have been the 90^th birthday of Anne Frank (1929-1945).  In her Diary, she says, “I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.”

God of hope and goodness, grant us the grace to be alert to the daily challenges to all that is good in our hearts. May we listen to and learn from the voices and wisdom of the young. In living up to our ideals, may we refuse to be undermined or dissuaded from bringing peace, love, and justice to our world by those who would spread dissention and death.—AMEN.