Monday Morning Offering: 6/1

Image: George Mendoza

We come this morning with heavy hearts, Lord...

We offer up the grief of George Floyd's family and friends,
the grief of all the people of Minneapolis, a grief shared 
by cities and towns across the nation, around the world,
a grief we're sure weighs heavy on your heart, too, Lord...

We lift up your people's anguish and anger
their soul-deep frustration, their righteous indignation
and the protesters' chanted prayers:
I cannot breathe, I cannot breathe!
Take a knee!  Take a knee!  Take a knee!

When we speak of all of this - and surely we will -
keep us mindful, Lord, that you alone
read our minds, plumb the depths of our hearts
and know the stories that have shaped
the persons we've become and all the ways 
that we have damaged one another,
looting human dignity, denying the humanity
of men and women fashioned in your image,
our sisters and our brothers...

You hear our every prayer, Lord, so we beg you, 
hear the prayer we offer you this morning:
show us the way you've shown us time and time again: 
the path of justice, paved with faith in you,
and opened wide with love and reverence
for all your sons and daughters...

Move our hearts, Lord, change our thinking,
help us see and  hear what we have missed for far too long;
give us words to speak for reaching out,
for healing wounds, for making peace... 

We come this morning with heavy hearts, Lord...

We offer up the grief of George Floyd's family and friends,
the grief of all the people of Minneapolis, a grief shared 
by cities and towns across the nation, around the world,
a grief we're sure weighs heavy on your heart, too, Lord...

Amen.


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