Lord, guide us to a new era of care, compassion, and community.
Help us to realize that wealth is not merit,
Oppression is not righteous, and
Inequity does not help us prosper.
Let us overcome fear, reject hate, and find the strength to pursue your ways of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.*
Guide us O Lord. Amen
* Galatians 5:22-23.
Almighty God, you proclaim your truth in every age by many voices: Direct those who speak where many listen and write what many read, that they may do their part in making the heart of this people wise, its mind sound, and its will just. Help us discern and hear your truths. Amen
Adapted from The Book of Common Prayer.
“. . . The only thing that counts is fully expressing itself through love.” Galatians 5:6(b)
On this day Lord we remember and ask you to heal our country.
Free us from our hate, bitterness, anger, and resentments.
Help us to forgive, to reach out to our neighbors, and accept them as we accept ourselves, that together we might find a way forward.
A way of hope, of prosperity for all, a way of peace.
Heal us O Lord.
Amen
He has risen
giving us hope
that we too can love sacrificially,
strengthen our communities,
pursue justice, and
survive oppression,
together.
Hope
that we can change the world for our children – all children.
Hope
that they might thrive, finding
food, water, shelter, and opportunities to use the talents God gave them,
together.
Hope
that we might move towards love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control,
and away from the politics of power and control.
He has risen.
Alleluia!
Amen
The light shines in the darkness.
Help us to see.
To understand.
To share your truth.
To act in love.
To pursue peace.
Our hope is in that light.
The light shines through the darkness.
Amen
He is coming.
And he brings the hope of a better world.
The oppressor will come to an end, and destruction will cease;
the aggressor will vanish from the land.
In love a throne will be established;
in faithfulness a man will sit on it –
one from the house of David –
one who in judging, seeks justice and speeds the cause of righteousness.
[Isaiah 16:4-5]
We hope and wait.
Amen
Today’s prayer is from Psalm 72, v. 12-14
For he will deliver the needy who cry out,
the afflicted who have no-one to help.
He will take pity on the weak and the needy
and save the needy from death.
He will rescue them from oppression and violence,
for precious is their blood in his sight.
Amen
The prayer today incorporates a paragraph from Across That Bridge by Congressman John Lewis.
“[N]o matter how tarnished or weak the flame, when the forces of darkness seem like they are about to consume us, we will ourselves to survive, and we begin to stand in the center of our inner light and invite its power to clear away the darkness that has clouded the soul.”
Help your light shine in us and through us Lord, that we might find a better way to live and work together.
Amen
Today’s prayer is adapted from Psalm 15.
Lord, who may dwell in your sanctuary? Who may live on your holy hill?
He whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from his heart
and has no slander on his tongue, who does his neighbor no wrong and casts no slur on his fellowman,
who despises a vile man but honors those who fear the Lord, who keeps his word even when it hurts,
he does not take unfair advantage of those in need, and does not accept a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things will never be shaken.
Lord help us to find hope in your word, and to choose leaders who follow your path of humility, wisdom and peace.
Amen
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