Whether or not you agree with the students walking out on March 14, it is an opportunity to learn and to pray...
Consider these words:
Walk the Talk: A Reflection on the National School Walkout (link)
Rizpah: Five months alone, totally alone
Prayers:
learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow.
(Isaiah 1:17)
Lord, we are your voice in the
world today.
Help us to speak out when we see injustice.
Give us courage
to fight for the rights of others.
Watch over those being held as prisoners [to violence].
Keep those who are afraid, strong in their faith in
you.
For your ways of peace and love will overcome all evil.
(By Jenifer Lee Gamber and Sharon Pearson) from "Call on Me: A Prayer Book for Young People"
Almighty God, who created us in your own image: Grant us grace
fearlessly to contend against evil and to make no peace with oppression;
and, that we may reverently use our freedom, help us to employ it in
the maintenance of justice in our communities and among the nations, to
the glory of your holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives
and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. (BCP)
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