SUNDAY MORNING PRAYER

You creator God
              who has ordered us
              in families and communities,
              in clans and tribes,
              in states and nations.

You creator God
            who enact your governance
               in ways overt and
               in ways hidden.
             Your exercise your will for
               peace and for justice and for freedom.

We give you thanks for the peaceable order of
     our nations and for the chance of choosing---
            all the manipulative money notwithstanding.

We pray now for new governance
     that your will and purpose may prevail,
     that our leaders may have a sense
             of justice and goodness,
     that we as citizens may care about the
             public face of your purpose.

We pray in the name of Jesus who was executed
     by the authorities.

Walter Brueggemann, Prayers for a Privileged People