Our Creator God, the One who makes the way of peace and justice,
As we sit today in the wake of such violence, such racism, such hate,
When the words do not come,
When our hearts are broken,

O Lord, in your round and borderless mercy,
Hear our prayer.

We ask for the strength to love,
We ask for the wisdom to reject believing fantasies about one another,
We ask for the relentlessness to keep showing up,
We ask for reprieve from acting out of fear,
We ask for the courage to stand in the gap and say "no more."

O Lord, in your round and borderless mercy,
Hear our prayer.

For those living in the immanence of violence,
For those who know little of peace,
For those who cannot rest yet,

O Lord in your round and borderless mercy,
Hear our prayer.

Show us, O God, how we may also be the ones who make the way of peace and justice.
Just like our Creator.

For your mercy is round and it is borderless.

In this mercy, Lord, hear our prayer. Amen.

Written by Rev. Kate Fields