Weekly Inspiration (11/09/22)

A prayer from Walter Brueggemann (b. 1933) 

Post-Election Day 

You creator God who has ordered us in families and communities, in clans and tribes, in states and nations. 

You creator God who enacts your governance in ways overt and in ways hidden.
You exercise your will for peace and for justice and for freedom. We give you thanks for the peaceable order of our nation and for the chance of choosing—all the manipulative money notwithstanding. 

We pray now for new governance that your will and purpose may prevail, that our leaders may have a sense of justice and goodness, that we as citizens may care about the public face of your purpose. 

We pray in the name of Jesus who was executed by the authorities.  
Amen.