A perfect prayer for me and Libya...

This popped up on the US LWC site today.  I almost always read the prayer. Some are just brilliantly on..like those newspaper  horoscopes that pin you and your day exactly.

This was probably selected months or years ago for today. And this week, Libya has been much in the news and Cyprian was from Carthage...was that Dido and Aeneas?  Wasn't there a fall there some 2000 or more years ago. Is it actually in Tunisia...I need to check..

But what doesn't need checking is how  appropriate it is for me personally - today!  A  Micro and macro prayer, almost 2000 years old:

Living with Christ Morning Prayer

Friday September 16, 2011

Let us pray to the Lord without duplicity, 

in tune with one another, 

entreating God with sighs and tears, 

as befits people in our position- 

placed as we are between the many, 

lamenting that they have fallen way, 

and the faithful remnant 

that fears it may do the same; 

between the weak, 

laid low in large numbers, 

and the few still standing firm.  

Let us pray that peace 

may very soon be restored to us, 

help reach us in our dangers, 

draw us from our dark retreats, 

and may God's gracious promises 

find fulfillment. 

May we see after the rain, fair weather, 

after the darkness, light, 

after these storms and tempests, 

a gentle calm. Amen. 

- St. Cyprian of Carthage