Prayer for Nurturing Community

Prayer for Nurturing Community - Week of January 15, 2023

Beloved, what does it take to nourish, every day, just and healing, thriving diverse communities? May we take up these tools, develop these skills, devote ourselves to these tasks with courage and with joy that we can choose to nourish and transform communities, deal with inequities and injustices, and co-create a world of equity, justice, and care. Beloved, we each cannot do it all, and yet, may we devote ourselves each day to what we can do to leave no one behind, to forget no harm and no help, to cultivate creative communities of generosity, gratitude, thick and trusting connections. Beloved, may we show up, day after day, to make love and justice more real, to worry less about lipservice and more about changes to actions and to transforming understanding, hearts, and relationships. Beloved, may we keep the heritage of the many who have gone before us, doing their imperfect and still best to create a thriving, multicultural world of justice, love, and care, and do our own imperfect and still best to the do the same. Amen.