You Alone: A Prayer When Calamity Strikes

None of us can tame the terror by night

None of us knows when next the winds will howl,

the earth crack,

or the sea swallow the land.

You alone created the heavens and the earth

You alone can tell creation "This far and no more!"

We are powerless against the throes of calamity

But we are your creation too, made in your image.

In the dark of night, the immovable moved

Solid shifted and shook us awake.

Have mercy on our fragile flesh

Hear our cry, "Comfort us! Heal us! Help us!"

You alone are our strength and our hope

You alone.