A Collect to Trust the Lord Even When Things Seem to Go Badly

God of all things, who knows the end from the beginning, let us not give up hope when you do not do what we expect, but help us to trust that your ways are greater than ours and that all will still be well in your great wisdom and plan, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who opened the way of reconciliation with you through the Holy Spirit and now reigns forever in glory. Amen. ‘But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel.’ – Luke 24:21