Beat Bullying

This article on "The Sprout" website talks about anti-bullying week better than I can.
http://www.thesprout.co.uk/en/news/anti-bullying-week/06545.html


There are always times when we feel unlovely and unloved, bewildered, lost, unsure of who we are and of what is expected of us.
There always seem to be dark times of pain and confusion, of misunderstandings that become like tangled roots - twisted - without space to grow deeply.
There are always times when we feel trashed and rejected, Sometimes by those close to us.
Help us to disentangle the knots of confusion and misunderstanding,
To understand the hurts that others feel - that we have ignored.
Help us to speak of what we feel,
Help us to know when others need to speak so that then we can l listen.
Help us to loosen the tight package of pain and move into new understandings.
Let us share, and search and listen,
Know ourselves more completely
And feel an awakened sense of all that is good and true spilling over into riches of brightness and love.

Dear Lord, we know that you have given us the freedom to choose.
We can choose whether to treat others with kindness and respect or to scorn, bully and abuse them.
Help us to choose rightly.
Help us to recognise the divine image in each one of us, however different we may be as individuals.
Help us to resist the pressures of others who want us to join them in making someone a victim of their cruelty.
Help us to know that in hurting others we are harming our better selves and hurting you. Amen