This week’s OEP is a prayer given
to open the U.S. House of Representatives on September 10, 2015. I hope it will
have meaning for you today.
I'm taking a little break from One
Eternal Presence for a few weeks. In the mean time, each week I'm sharing
one of the fourteen Opening Prayers for the U.S. House of Representatives I've
had the honor and privilege to deliver through the years. I'll be back
after Labor Day.
As vacations and recesses draw to a
close, we give thanks for the gift of rest and recreation afforded us while so
many in our country and world have spent those same days in fear and suffering.
May we leave business as usual in the shadows of yesterday, seeking to shine with renewed purpose, inspired wisdom, and transformative action.
May every person associated with these Halls of power remember their calling as public servants to humbly hold the hopes, dreams, and trust of people from every walk of life in every State, city, town, village, and neighborhood of our country and world.
As numerous streams of opinion, interest, and need flow into the procedures, process, and decisions of this day and days ahead, may there be wisdom and patience to allow them to find their way to pools and ponds of peace, rivers of mercy, and eventually oceans of compassion and common good for all people. Amen.
May we leave business as usual in the shadows of yesterday, seeking to shine with renewed purpose, inspired wisdom, and transformative action.
May every person associated with these Halls of power remember their calling as public servants to humbly hold the hopes, dreams, and trust of people from every walk of life in every State, city, town, village, and neighborhood of our country and world.
As numerous streams of opinion, interest, and need flow into the procedures, process, and decisions of this day and days ahead, may there be wisdom and patience to allow them to find their way to pools and ponds of peace, rivers of mercy, and eventually oceans of compassion and common good for all people. Amen.
It's prayer in action that truly motivates me as a progressive Christian. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful prayer!
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