Here Comes Ike

It's time for the hurricane prayer again. Ike will probably hit the Texas coast around Corpus Christi Saturday. We're expecting lots of rain (which usually means flooding around here) and high winds over the weekend in our area (near San Antonio). What we will experience is nothing like what the people on the coast will get, though.

What's ironic is that Ron is still in the Florida panhandle working with the people who prepare for and clean up after these hurricanes, and now one is headed our way.

Please pray again that the hurricane loses it's force, and for the safety of those in it's path.


Prayer for Safety in Hurricane Season

O God, Master of this passing world,
hear the humble voices of your children.
The Sea of Galilee obeyed Your order
and returned to its former quietude.
You are still the Master of land and sea.
We live in the shadow of a danger over which we have no control:
the Gulf, like a provoked and angry giant,
can awake from its seeming lethargy,
overstep its conventional boundaries,
invade our land and spread chaos and disaster.

During this hurricane season we turn to You, O loving Father.
Spare us from past tragedies whose memories are still so vivid
and whose wounds seem to refuse to heal with the passing of time.

O Virgin, Star of the Sea, Our beloved Mother,
we ask you to plead with your Son in our behalf,
so that spared from the calamities common to this area
and animated with a true spirit of gratitude,
we will walk in the footsteps of your Divine Son
to reach the heavenly Jerusalem where a stormless eternity awaits us.
Amen.