Our God who dwells on High.
Our God who walks
in the street.
Our God whose
voice rolls down like thunder.
Our God whom
we find in the silent questions that plague us in the middle of the night.
Our God who
punishes and chastens the evildoer.
Our God who
finds mercy for the sinner.
On this day
of deliberation – help these legislators find You – not in the absolute or
categorical imperatives that draw lines in the ideological sands of
partisanship; but rather let them see you in their doubts, in their questions,
in their struggles to fulfill the needs of our community. Help them to move one another and to be
moved. Open their hearts to the possible
and the improbable. Help them to find
the human and the divine in their colleagues, their constituents and in
themselves.
Help us all to
stay balanced, O God.
Help us to
find humor and banish hubris.
Give us – all
of us - this day – a moment of tranquility and transcendence so that we might
rise above our ordinariness and glimpse the glory of Your greatness.
Let us see it in ourselves. Let us see it in these deliberations. Let us see it in one another.
Then, and
only then, will we merit the gifts You have bestowed upon us.
May this day
bring change.
May this day
bring hope.
May this day
bring love.
AMEN
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