Holy Spirit, remind me today that I am here, in a situation of unsafety, to pray. Help my body move with “a cadence of peace” that I might provide a different fulcrum between the armed and the unarmed. May I be swift in discerning dynamics, clear in taking action, courageous in preventing harm. If I should die today in the service of nonviolence, grant forgiveness to my killers, healing to the wounded, and comfort to my companions. If I should live today in my service of nonviolence, then deepen in me Your Energy for Life; and when I wake tomorrow, fit my feet once again “with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.” Amen.
Credit: Rose Marie Berger
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
Credit: Rev. René August