As I cook for Derek’s wedding rehearsal, I pray for the victims of Hurricane Florence. I pray for those who live in the paths of the wildfires. I wrote this prayer last year after Hurricane Harvey.

Dear Father God,

Search for your sheep, 34:11.
Deliver them out of all the scattered places, 34:12.
Bring them to their own land, 34:13.
Feed them in all the inhabited places, 34:13.
Make them lie on good grazing ground, 34:14.
Seek the lost and bring back those driven away, 34:16.
Bind up the broken and strengthen the sick, 34:16.
Save your flock, 34:22.
Bring them peace, 34:25.
Cause the wild beasts to leave the land, 34:25.
Let them sleep in the woods, 34:25.
Make them a blessing, 34:26.
Make the tree yield its fruit, and the ground its increase, 34:27.
Make them safe in their land, 34:27.
Deliver them, 34:27.
Do not let them be afraid, 34:28.
Plant them in a place of renown (prominence), 34:29.
Do not let them be hungry, nor bearing shame, 34:29.
Make them know the You are with them, 34:30.
Remind them that they are men and You are their God, 34:31.

Jeremiah 36:9-11, “(9) For I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.

(10) And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, all of it. And the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built.

(11) And I will multiply man and beast upon you. And they shall increase and bring forth fruit. And I will settle you as you were before and do better to you than at the beginning. Thus you shall know that I am the Lord.” Modern English Version

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