Called to Order (A Prayer)

A Prayer for the Minnesota House of Representatives

Offered 24 June 2021 by Zoom.

Let us pray. Tuombe.

 
Dear God of all Creation, in these first few days of summer we give you thanks for the gift of life and the abundance of the world that we share. 

   You set the sun and the moon in motion in their dance across the sky. 

   You formed the land and scooped the seas and shaped creatures great and small.

   You crafted a delicate web that began before us and will stretch on well beyond.

Dear God of all Peoples, you created us in your image. In your image, you created us. Male and Female, with many shades of skin, styles of hair, cultures and traditions, you created us. 

   You tasked us to be fruitful and be prudent... 

     ...to steward the resources you have entrusted us with for the flourishing of all. 

   Save us from the temptation to turn our eyes inward... 

     ...to put ourselves over and above others. 

   Set us in right relationship with one another and the natural world. 

   Equip us to cross lines that divide. 

   Empower us to bless others with what we have been gifted. 

   Humble us to receive what it is that our neighbors have to teach and to share. 

Dear God of all Seasons, as a particularly frigid winter gives way to blistering heat and pandemic tides begin to ebb, we trust that there is a time for everything under heaven. 

   Be with us today in this time of work. Guide conversations and open hearts. 

   Be with us too, when all is made good, so that we, your people, may know rest. 

Amen.