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A song to accompany today's Monday Morning Offering...
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We Shall Overcome by the
By the power of your saving love, Lord,
help our nation overcome
the bias that divides us,
the bigotry bred by mistrust
and the pain that comes of prejudice...
Let us never for a moment
pretend to love you - and at the same time
ignore, mistreat or abandon
our neighbors, brothers and sisters all, near and far,
one family, children of one Father,
one in Christ our brother,
blessed by our diversity, yours in our humanity...
In the depths of our hearts, Lord,
help us overcome
our racism, our prejudice and partiality,
our bias and our bigotry,
our narrow-minded thinking
and all the ways we rush to judgment...
Help us overcome
our pride, our self-importance,
our undeserved privileges and rights,
our denial of what's fact, what's true,
our careless disregard of others' pain and plight...
And, Lord, help us overcome the thought
that we're above all this,
the temptation to believe
that no such faults are ours...
Help us overcome
and move beyond the status quo
and all that keeps us from real change;
free us from inertia's grip
paralyzing progress
and keeping things the way they've always been...
Help us overcome, Lord,
what discriminates and segregates,
separates and divides us,
what keeps us from being one nation,
indivisible, under your reign,
with liberty and equal justice - for all...
That's what we pray this morning, Lord,
and that's all we have to offer you:
our plea that you help us do
what we have not accomplished ourselves,
what we cannot do on our own,
what we cannot do apart from you
and your blessing, your strength
and your grace...
Amen.
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