A Prayer from Brian McLaren

Lord, please make us instruments of Your transforming love.

Where hostile voices yell in fearful anger,
help us sing loud songs of courageous friendship.

Where people trapped in bigotry send out their shrill dogwhistles of fear,
let us form a resounding multi-faith choir of generous inclusion.

Where bulldozers of greed roar in to plunder all that is green and alive,
Empower us overcome their noise with our hymn of praise for this beautiful earth.

Where cynicism echoes in the broken hearts of struggling idealists,
Let us crescendo with a new song of resilient hope.

O, Holy One, may we seek
less to silence our opponents and more to teach them to love your music
And join the choir.

Oh God of all beauty, may we be instruments of your transforming love,
And may your holy melody rise in us again,
More sweet, loud, and strong than ever before,
Starting now. Amen.