Peace Conference Prayer

God, our Hope!
In this land,
which has groaned under sixty-three years of division,
grant that North and South may be constant in meeting together,
that slowly the razor wire of division may be removed,
and that we may acknowledge all these things as your grace to your people.

God,
you commanded that we love our neighbors as ourselves.
We pray for our brothers and sisters who are suffering from extreme poverty in the North.
Release them from famine and may they praise you,
sharing love with their neighbours,
and let their children grow healthy to become leaders of a reunified peninsula.

We pray also for our brothers and sisters of the churches in the North,
and remember the more than fifty Anglican churches in the North before division.
Grant that we in the South may be brothers and sisters of faith,
Give us encouragement and desire
that the time may soon come
when the churches of the North and the South pray and praise you together.  

God, our Peace!
We pray for peace and reunification in this Peninsula.
May our land come out of the fear of war and build a system of peace,
and may this be a model for world peace.

Grant that we may change to make this small step,
that our church may change, and that the world may change
so that there no longer is North and South
and that your peace may fill the whole planet.

We pray this in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen.