Prayer for our country:
O God, You are our help in
ages past and You are the hope in us and through us for the days to come. We pray today for our fellow citizens, some
of whom we struggle to love. We get
caught in cycles of dismissing each other.
We are quick to point out the splinter in another’s eye, while ignoring
the log in our own. Help us, O God. We remember how Isaiah was told to preach to
people who would not listen, change, or return to You. Is that still the sermon You sing to us
today? We know we cannot change another
person or convince them of our own correctness, yet we still spend our effort
and energy trying. Open our hearts in this time of uncertainty. Meet us in our fears and frustration, meet us
in our division and derision, meet us on this election day. God, we pray for the future of our
country. We pray for a new spirit to
stir in our lives, our neighbor’s lives, our community, and from sea to shining
sea. We pray for those who will be
elected to serve, not that we would follow blindly, but that we, as people of
faith, would be infused and inspired with Your call to do justice, to show
loving kindness, and to remember our humanity, that we are made of the
earth. God ground us and guide and let
Your governing presence be what is at the center of our lives
every day to come. Amen.
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