Have you ever thought about what it means to live with the certainty that tomorrow will be a new day? That there will be morning, there will be coffee, there will be the usual bustle? I have thought about it. And I understand that for many people today this is not a given, but a dream.

I don't want to burden you with politics, I don't want to argue who is right and who is wrong. I just want you to imagine how someone, just like you, is now listening to a siren instead of an alarm clock. How someone sits in the dark, afraid to turn on the light. How someone holds a child's toy in their hands, and squeezes a prayer in their soul.

Prayer. Do you pray? I pray. Maybe not always as correctly as I should. Sometimes I just talk to God, sometimes I am just silent before Him. And it seems to me that if there were more of us who pray for peace, this peace would come sooner.

You may say that prayer is just words. But I believe that words change reality. We can fill this world with light, even if we are thousands of kilometers away from pain and fear.

I don’t know who you are. Perhaps you are a strong man who is used to solving problems with actions, not prayers. Perhaps you are a skeptic and think that such talk is just empty lyrics. Perhaps you just accidentally stumbled upon this, and it will soon be erased from your memory. But if suddenly, even for a second, you felt that there is meaning in this - try it. Pray. Stop for a minute, close your eyes and say to God: “Lord, grant peace.”

It is so little, but it is so much. Because maybe at this very second someone on the other side of the world, who has lost hope, will feel that he is not alone. That someone, a stranger but kind, is praying for him.

I would like you to remember this moment. And maybe tomorrow, when you brew your morning coffee, you will remember that in the world someone needs your prayer. And again you will say: "Lord, grant peace."

Thank you for reading.
And may your day be filled with kindness.
Lana Banana