God of the waiting 
God of the waiting,
give us courage to wait with those
in the most broken places of the world,
and with all those who struggle to be bearers of hope there.

We pray with those who wait for wars to stop,
for violence to cease.
God of the waiting, turn conflict into peace.

And we pray for those who have given up
on the coming of hope,
because they feel they wait in vain
at checkpoints, at borders, for jobs, for food,
and for all those whose lives are crushed
under the structures and systems of injustice.

God of the waiting, wait with your world.
Turn anger into reconciliation,
and our lack of hope into courage,
so that our waiting may be over
and all the things of darkness shall be no more.

A Christian Aid prayer