Oh most merciful and omniscient God,
We pray fervently for those women and girls who are even at this moment, in harm’s way;
We pray for those who are suffering under the continuous threat and unrelenting action of physical, sexual, emotional and psychological abuse..
We pray for those women who have lost all hope, who believe that their conditions are something from which they can never escape;
We ask that you provide them the insight, courage, strength, and unequivocal belief that they can vanquish their violent existences, and give them the knowledge that there are those of us who care, standing ready to act…
We pray especially for those women and girls who are beaten, raped, mutilated, wed against their wills, bought and sold and exploited by others, those who have suffered under transactional systems and cultures who view women as chattel, those who have been injured/killed in war and conflict, and for those of us who still have the mindset that women and girls are, in every instance, “less than.”
Lord, please enlighten us, please deliver us, please heal us, and please keep us ever mindful that through You and Your Grace, all things are possible. In Your Matchless Name We Pray….Amen.
Dr. Renee Escoffery-Torres
President
ECW, Province III