Tuesday prayer

When all the speechifying stops.
When all the ads stop shouting at us,
Where will we find ourselves?

When all the votes counted,
All the stickers passed out,
And the polling place is closed,
Where will we find ourselves?

When we wake up tomorrow morning,
will we face our divisions that has been visited on every generation since our Civil War.
Where will we find ourselves?

When the cries for peace and love and justice
Fall deaf on the ears of those with power,
Where will we find ourselves?

We find ourselves still praying for God's realm to come.
Inside
Around
Here and now...
But it rarely comes knocking on our door with a quick fix or easy money back guarantees.

God's presence comes in like a weak force,
At once we might miss
But deeper still God was always there.

I pray for our country today,
I pray for peace.
I pray for one day we might stop waiting and start being the embodying and enacting and expanding God's realm.
For two thousand years, Jesus has kept saying, "It is at hand."
Right there
If you reach out.
And I pray today, we might reach not just for winning, but for God's grace for all people.

Many blessings ~