A Prayer For Moral Courage

Authoritarian systems depend on exhaustion and silence.

Democracy depends on people who remain present.

”Spirit of Grace, we are living through a time that asks much of us. It asks us to stay awake when it would be easier to look away. It asks us to remain hopeful when disappointment keeps arriving. It asks us to defend the dignity of others even when systems grow hostile to that dignity. Give us courage that is steady and disciplined. Protect us from despair that turns inward and from anger that loses its way. Help us remember that justice is not sustained by courts alone, but by ordinary people who refuse to abandon one another. Strengthen all who are vulnerable in this moment. Strengthen all who continue to organize, speak, vote, protect, and resist. And remind us that the moral arc of history does not bend on its own. People bend it together. Amen.” Rev. Cameron Trimble