for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Lover of Life we give thanks tonight for those who have gone before us and worked along side us, those who have shown us the way of steadfast love and sought equality, freedom, mercy, and justice for all. We give thanks for leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy, Claudette Colvin and Fannie Lou Hamer, Medger Evers and Myrlie Evers-Williams, Malcom X and Betty Shabazz, Whitney Young and Mary McLeod Bethune, and so, so, so many more. Those leaders inspired us and encouraged us, reminding us in our most troubled hours that, indeed, courage and persistence belongs to all of us, and is what changes hate and inequality, awful laws and killing customs, cruelty and injustice into equality, freedom, mercy, and justice for all. We give thanks for all who showed us the way with their lives, for those who followed and made change real. We give thanks for those who sacrificed and for those who risked faithfully. We give thanks for then, and we give thanks for those still working. Lover of Life, we know this work is not done. We know that there is hatred still and unjust laws, practices, and customs. We know that cruelty worms along in its own awful ways and that mercy is little known in the lives of many. Give us strength and courage to carry on, steadfastly and true in the ways of love that bring hope and healing, freedom and justice, equality and mercy to everyone, everywhere, without exception. Amen.
Lover of Life we give thanks tonight for those who have gone before us and worked along side us, those who have shown us the way of steadfast love and sought equality, freedom, mercy, and justice for all. We give thanks for leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy, Claudette Colvin and Fannie Lou Hamer, Medger Evers and Myrlie Evers-Williams, Malcom X and Betty Shabazz, Whitney Young and Mary McLeod Bethune, and so, so, so many more. Those leaders inspired us and encouraged us, reminding us in our most troubled hours that, indeed, courage and persistence belongs to all of us, and is what changes hate and inequality, awful laws and killing customs, cruelty and injustice into equality, freedom, mercy, and justice for all. We give thanks for all who showed us the way with their lives, for those who followed and made change real. We give thanks for those who sacrificed and for those who risked faithfully. We give thanks for then, and we give thanks for those still working. Lover of Life, we know this work is not done. We know that there is hatred still and unjust laws, practices, and customs. We know that cruelty worms along in its own awful ways and that mercy is little known in the lives of many. Give us strength and courage to carry on, steadfastly and true in the ways of love that bring hope and healing, freedom and justice, equality and mercy to everyone, everywhere, without exception. Amen.
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