Today I’ve decided to not allow myself to give in to feelings of frantic despair (What is Trump wins?), but rather to lift up a prayer for Hillary and for all of us. Today’s prayer comes from the book Psalms for Praying by Nan C. Merrill and is a paraphrase of a portion of Psalm 68.
Let us pray:
O Beloved, reach into the hearts of your people,
Enter into the darkness of their fears.
A new dawn is rising; great will be the understanding
of those who know love;
The darkness of ignorance will be overcome!
The nations will be united in their diversity,
Living in harmony and with integrity-—
Like the wings of a dove covered with silver,
its pinions with gold.
Then will fear be no more,
Love will reign in every heart.
Yes, the Beloved will empower us with love,
as we face the fears within.
Love ever whispers, “I will break down the walls of illusion,
I will shatter the fears that bind,
That you may walk in a new dawn,
that you may dance with light hearts
and spread peace throughout the earth.”
Amen.