The Weekend Trader Part 2 – A Worldwide Prayer For Industry Healing & Recovery

To the worldwide trading community, amidst the current industry turmoil and substantial theft of hundreds of millions in assets that have affected the lives of thousands, I ask that you pause for a few minutes each day and join me in the following prayer for recovery and healing, and that you consider passing this to others throughout the industry.

Oh merciful and powerful God, we thank you for every good thing that you’ve blessed us with. We know that we can’t take even one breath without you, and we thank you for sustaining us each and every day.

We thank you for our families, friends, and a the beautiful gift of a world where we can fully develop into who we are meant to be.

We know that we are all imperfect and fall short of your glory, and too often focus on our needs, wants, and desires … desires that too often turn our true need for daily bread into a selfish persuit of greed.  For that, we ask your forgiveness.

We thank you for a world of second chances where the opportunity to forgive – and to be forgiven – is an immense gift beyond our limited comprehension.

Help us put the events of the past week in their proper perspective.  Help us to remember the far greater priorities of family, friends, health, and love above the concept of worldly asset allocation.

Help us remember that all assets on earth are yours, that we are all merely stewards of them for a finite period of time … until we hand the torch to others.

For those who have taken assets unjustly, we ask for your forgiveness, and for your help in allowing us to forgive them.

For those toiling to locate and return the assets, we ask for your powerful insight and guidance.

For those from whom assets were taken, we ask that you sustain them with love and patience, comfort & heal their wounds, and make them whole.

For those whose assets are returned, we ask for your guidance in deploying them for your good.

Father, help us to see the good amidst the rubble, the smiles among the tears, the rose among the thorns, and the emerging flower amidst the volcanic ash.

Help us reflect your glory and be a beacon during these difficult times, and help us fight through the fog of our own humanity to focus on the one true Light.

We know that when two or more are gathered in Jesus’ name, He is with us, and that through Him ALL things are possible and beautiful.

We ask all of these things in His name.

Amen.