Prayer for Times of Political Upheaval

God of parted seas and turned tables, you have revealed to us over the centuries just how broken we are. We hear it in words that deny the humanity of others. We feel it in the grief of losing relationships to division. We see it on flags that bear your name and carry out sin. 

Give us justice. Call us into the work of repairing our world by reckoning with who we have been and are becoming. 

Give us peace. Stir us into compassion, reminding us that we belong not only to you, but are responsible for one another as siblings in your beloved family.

Give us imagination to see what may be. 
Give us strength to admit what has been.
Give us love to bind us together.

Amen.