This ‘prayer for key workers’ appears with kind permission of Dave Lucas. You can find a lot more prayer and liturgy like this, using widgets to illustrate the text, on his website: Prayers for Lockdown.
Prayer for key workers
Father we are in debt to so many
The key workers who go that extra mile
The ones we have undervalued
The ones we now lean on
The ones whose selfless service leaves them exposed
The ones who put their own lives and those of their families at risk
The ones who are there for all of us
Circle them Lord
Protect them and their loved ones
Grant them rest
Guard their emotional health
Show us how we can support them
Thank them for us Lord
Shower them in blessings
May we never again take them for granted
Remind us to maintain this new found admiration long after this crisis is over, to treat them more fairly, to create a more fair society
But for now Father there is only one thing that matters, only one thing we pray, please keep them safe. Amen
For more by Dave Lucas, please check out the Disability & Jesus website. For a Talk on Jesus and Key Workers, please follow this link.