A Prayer from Park Hill Congregational UCC Denver, Colorado Rev. Dr. David Bahr [email protected] May 25, 2021 Come Holy Spirit, we pray this morning for the family of George Floyd and for all your people who are denied the right to breathe the breath of life. Comfort communities around the country today in mourning. Our nation is sick with white supremacy. Come Holy Spirit, we need your presence to confront this horror infecting our human spirit – manifested in Capitol insurrections, the erosion of voting rights, and every day micro-aggressions against Black, Indigenous, and people of color. This ideology of superiority is woven into the laws of our country and how they are enforced. Come Holy Spirit, break into the chambers of power in this country and in ordinary homes with the force of Pentecost - with wind and fire. And lives changed. Prophets like Amos and Jeremiah in our midst have been calling out injustice and inequity for years and decades and centuries to stop us in this insane behavior – and our temptation to offer excuses instead of demanding change. Come Holy Spirit, show us our responsibility. The time to act is long past. And yet, if even today we are called forward, Come Holy Spirit, let us act so that Black lives truly matter. Grant us your wisdom, your courage, and your love to create a world where every man, woman and child can breathe freely. Come Holy Spirit. And so, in honor of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and Amhaud Arbery and Sandra Bland and hundreds more, in the name of Christ we pray. Amen.
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