No doubt so, and good thing too, but
perhaps the real issue is that 'prayer for London' - and for the entire
formerly-Christian West - should have been conducted before the incident in
question.
'Things fall apart, the centre cannot
hold', as WB Yeats once remarked.
Notably, things have been falling apart in
the West socially and morally for some decades now, ever since we, the Western
world, decided to turn from our traditional moral and spiritual base,
Christianity, to other ways, other practices and lifestyles that have brought
us to our knees as a society.
Perhaps it's time for someone to say,
"The party's over, it was fun while it lasted, but now we're reaping the
consequences - HIV, extreme family disintegration, urban terrorism - and now
it's time to turn back to the God we left behind, and from whom we've been
drifting for too many decades."
Things will only stop falling apart when we
return to the Centre, the Axis that holds everything together.
Praying for London, and New York, and
Paris, and Durban, after the chaos has hit is all very well, but what about
preventative prayer, prayer before the event...?
And what about that great prayer of Return,
of the Christian West returning to its spiritual roots, establishing again a
moral axis and foundation?
I'm talking about sorting out this mess
once and for all, sobering up from the party that's all gone horribly wrong,
and returning to our God.
And so what about a new call for another buzzword on social media, this time to be called 'Organised Nationwide Repentance...?
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