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 MOVEMENT PRAYERS 

Oh Divine Spirit, in the first chapter of Genesis it is reported that you breathed over waters of chaos and brought forth a new creation. In this time of national chaos, we need you desperately to breathe over us and bring forth something new.


Our national economic inequality causes us to weep with worry. We see adults working full time with two or three jobs just to get by! And in the midst of a pandemic, they must continue to work to survive even as they are vulnerable to disease.


We see structural racism rife in our nation in the economy, in education, in where we live.


We see hungry children struggling to thrive in a nation that is looking away from the next generation.


We see the cracks in our nation’s foundation as individualism runs rampant and our government fails to unite its people.


Oh Spirit! Come! Breathe over these waters of chaos! Break open our hearts to the suffering around us. Open our eyes that we might see with your vision. Birth in us a new creation of compassion so that grounded in community we might be the seeds of your promise. In these challenging times, we beg of you, renew the face of the earth.


 
 

God, as our world is on fire, we are desperate for a healing justice unshackled from any industrial complex. Empower us to build new relationships that are intersectional, embodied, and equitable. Strengthen us to also practice the way of healing ourselves as we strive to lead movements for justice, for it is only then that we can be the healing of our collective wounds. Amen. 



 
 
  • Jul 17, 2020

Almighty God

God of both Cain and Abel 

God the wandering tent dweller

Of Hagar, Leah and Tamar

God of the enslaved, 

God of the oppressed, 

God, who sends prophets, priests, poets, philosophers and friends to console, council and commune with us

God of the refugee and sex-worker, of the rebel and the murderous adulterer, David

God who longs for justice to flow like rivers and righteousness like a never-ending stream

Take the ordinary offering of our impoverished dreams

Transform and redeem the poverty of our imagination

Give life to our limitations, caused by our own greed

Give quenching hope to the relentless lust for false comfort

Satisfy us only with your love, justice and peace - 

With your very self...until

We dream your dreams and share in the work

of making your dreams come true for all creation

Amen



 
 

Created by David F. Potter, 2020

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