Evening Prayer: Social Media and Community

Dear God of Love and Justice, Tonight I hold my phone in one hand and this prayer in the other, and I confess that most days the phone wins. I scroll past the faces of neighbors I have never met, past news stories that should break my heart but barely slow my thumb. Amos cried out, "Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream" — yet so often my feed is a stagnant pond of outrage and performance, and I have added to its stillness.…