This is my twenty-first prayer for the voiceless, Lord, and I'm feeling so sad. Is there no end to the ways in which this world will degrade and abuse women and girls? Isn't it time we cried out for justice? for freedom? for right ways of relating that respect each person in the relationship?
If God can honour Rahab, if Jesus can enable the woman at the well to be his first apostle, can the world not see that women are just as much your children, whoever they are, whatever they do or have done to them, as any other human being?
And can they not see that to be your loved child is to have innate dignity and worth?
Father, I pray that you will so act, that no-one will find it profitable to exploit women and their bodies.
I really believe I can pray this in the name of your son, who loved and valued women without ever exploiting them.
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