Election Time - A Prayer
Holy God,
Form us with loving resolve
To bear Your light and hope
Into a season fraught
With fear and despair.
Form our thoughts
With Your alive Word of Love
Able to fashion new creations
Out of every crushing chaos.
Mold our hearts
Into vessels of grace
Sorely needed in every time
But especially needed
In this present moment.
Fashion our words
With a grace that celebrates
And builds up the beloved other
Forming space for thriving
Of body, mind and spirit.
Strengthen our resistance
To everything within and around
That dares to diminish
Your vision of a world made new
Where everyone joyfully thrives.
Transform the world
Again and again and again
With Your Holy Christ-love,
And break down every division,
Giving space for new beginnings
In answer to every death
Daring to claim the final word.
Raise in us Your resurrection,
Always offered as Holy gift
Calling us forward in love
For the good of the other
Planting your just peace
Throughout the whole creation.
Yes, bless us for this
High and Holy calling
Revealed with Your
Spirit-born Christ-light
Able to dispel every night
Of our misguided making.
And may Your deep love form us,
Heart, mind, body, and soul
Into a resolution of grace
Able to heal the world.
-DMLH, November 2024