It is not Paris we should pray for. It is the world. It is a
world in which Beirut, reeling from bombings two days before Paris, is not
covered in the press. A world in which a bomb goes off at a funeral in Baghdad
and not one white person’s status update says “Baghdad”, because not one white person died in that fire.
Pray for the world that blames a refugee crisis for a
terrorist attack. That does not pause to differentiate between attacker and the
person running from the very same thing you are.
Pray for a world where people walking across countries for
month, their only belongings upon their backs, are told they have no place to
go.
Say a prayer for Paris by all means, but pray more, for the world that does
not have a prayer for those who no longer have a home to defend. For a world
that is falling apart in all corners, and not simply in the towers and cafes we
find so familiar.
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