It is a strange time to be liberal in America. After Charlie Kirk was shot, before they even knew who the shooter was, some people in this nation were accusing liberals of being a deadly threat to America. Even after the shooter turned out NOT to be someone from “the radical left,” the fear and anger did not dissipate.
Today I am giving the prayer of the people in our Sunday Service. This is what I will say. Perhaps it will be helpful to other liberal people of faith who are struggling to navigate this painful time.
Source of our life and being, help us in this painful time to draw closer to one another. Help us not to isolate in our fear but reach out that we might remind each other what it means to be courageous in an age of fear, and to be loving in a time of cruelty.
Give us an inner peace no storm can overwhelm. Give us hearts of ferocious compassion that we might minister even in the cruelest of times. Help us to remember when we are hated for those we love, we stand in the spirit of saints through the ages who have chosen humanity over nation, love over religion and nature over industry.
In this strange time, give us courage to be joyful, peaceful and truly human.
We pray in all the sacred names of love.