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A selection of prayers to guide you, where ever this may find you. 

A Prayer For Righteous Anger, excerpted from Ordinary Blessings by Meta Herrick Carlson p.64

Can you give it good purpose

beyond your own need to be right?

Then rage for the sake of

what can still be, with an impulse to

move toward the ones

you would reject in favor of

the preordained agenda. 

The change you desire requires

pieces of you that perish

set in stubborn stone. 

So let your anger crack you wide open

a gracious gift to the world, a portion of the immeasurable forces

dying and rising together.

A Prayer For Resilience, excerpted from Ordinary Blessings by Meta Herrick Carlson p.35

My strength is no accident. 

It was planted 

deep in my rich soil

long before I thought to need it. 

This life has already stretched me

until sore muscles tore. 

I have been made to feel so small

I almost disappeared. 

Almost. 

I hold onto this slope

where rocks slide, 

the earth corrodes, 

seasons change but I remain. 

I take up space against all odds. 

The stubborn, savage beauty of one

who will not fade away. 

A Prayer For Tolerance, excerpted from Talking to God by Naomi Levy p.260

Teach us, God, to treasure the differences that distinguish one person from another.

Fill us with the strength to overcome senseless fear and hatred. 

Open our hears to the radiance that shines forth from every human soul.

Inspire us to shed our apathy; remind us that it is our obligation to be responsible for one another... Amen.

A Prayer For the Day of Rest, excerpted from Talking to God by Naomi Levy p.182

I love to change the world, but I rarely appreciate things as they are.

I know how to give, but I don't always know how to receive. 

I know how to keep busy, but I don't know how to be still. 

I talk, but I don't often listen. 

I look, but I don't often see. 

I yearn to succeed, but I often forget what is truly important. 

Teach me, God, to slow down. May my resting revive me. 

May it lead me to wisdom, to holiness, to peace, and to You. Amen.