Election Time - A Prayer
Holy God,

Form us with loving resolve

To bear Your light and hope

Into a season fraught

With fear and despair.

Form our thoughts

With Your alive Word of Love

Able to fashion new creations

Out of every crushing chaos.

Mold our hearts

Into vessels of grace

Sorely needed in every time

But especially needed

In this present moment.

Fashion our words

With a grace that celebrates

And builds up the beloved other

Forming space for thriving

Of body, mind and spirit.

Strengthen our resistance

To everything within and around

That dares to diminish

Your vision of a world made new

Where everyone joyfully thrives.

Transform the world

Again and again and again

With Your Holy Christ-love,

And break down every division,

Giving space for new beginnings

In answer to every death

Daring to claim the final word.

Raise in us Your resurrection,

Always offered as Holy gift

Calling us forward in love

For the good of the other

Planting your just peace

Throughout the whole creation.

Yes, bless us for this

High and Holy calling

Revealed with Your

Spirit-born Christ-light

Able to dispel every night

Of our misguided making.

And may Your deep love form us,

Heart, mind, body, and soul

Into a resolution of grace

Able to heal the world.

-DMLH, November 2024