By Kat Armas<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please join me as we pray this prayer together\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One: God of the cosmos, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this moment of remembering, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
ALL: We refuse easy triumphs<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n And come instead with truth on our lips.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n One: We confess how deeply we have been formed by empire,\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n how its logic has shaped our desires, our silences, and our sense <\/p>\n\n\n\n what is normal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: There are times we have sought comfort at the expense of\u202f<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n others\u2019 dignity and chosen safety over solidarity.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, you call us back.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n One: So, we lay down the ways we have mirrored what harms this world\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n and release our grip on control, on fear, and on scarcity.\u202f\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: Ground us in your mystery, a presence not contained by nation\u202f<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n or border but alive in what the world calls weak.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n One: Remind us that we belong to you, <\/p>\n\n\n\n to the land, and to one another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: Hold us in your mercy, both those who have upheld injustice\u202f<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n and those crushed by it.\u202f\u202f<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n One: Give us clarity and humble courage.\u202f\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: Teach us to walk in wholeness and liberation,<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n to choose love that frees,<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n justice that restores,<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n and a peace rooted in truth,<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n so that we might honor your image in this fragile, beloved\u202fWorld.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Amen<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Kat Armas Please join me as we pray this prayer together\u2026 One: God of the cosmos, In this moment of remembering, ALL: We refuse easy triumphs And come instead with truth on our lips. One: We confess how deeply we have been formed by empire,\u202f how its logic has shaped our desires, our silences,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[100,99,53,101],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer","tag-confession","tag-kat-armas","tag-prayer","tag-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}