Prayers, Meditations, and Blessings

Prayer for Our Elected Officials

by Jessica Halperin

Spirit of Love and Justice, Be with us today, and always.

We take to the streets, we write letters, we sing and worship and gather in community – remind us that our gatherings are sacred because you are there.

Sprit of Love and Justice, Be with our elected officials, today and always.

In the difficult work they are called to do, in the choices they must make and the lives that they change – remind them that the work they do is sacred, filled with opportunities to bring more love and justice into the world.

Spirit of Love and Justice, We know that life is complicated, and that no choice is easy and without repercussions. We know that the complexities of this word is what brings us together as people in sacred community, so that we may better know and remember the love and justice that guide our footsteps. We are grateful for the choices we can make, for the freedom, and dignity, and life-giving power that we claim when each of us makes a choice that is right for us.

Sometimes you whisper in our ears, Sprit, and sometimes we hear the roar of your presence in the voices of people raised in witness. You make yourself available to every one of us, [...] and we gather in prayer today to ask you to be with us, and with everyone we meet.

May every one of us, and every one of our Elected Officials, hear and heed your cries – Spirit of Love and Justice. May we be grateful for the complicated choices that each of us have to make and recognize that those choices are not only opportunities to bring more love and more justice into our world, but that those choices are the products of justice in our world – that discernment and conscience are sacred rights bestowed to each of us.

May we and our Elected Officials live fully into these gifts of choice and sacred discernment, and may they always be used to sustain more love and more justice.

Amen.