“A Prayer of Lament and Subversive Hope”
Oh God who listens in the long night,
We gather in the shadow of powers too vast for us —
Powers that proudly parade as destiny,
Powers that promise safety in exchange for our silence,
Powers that demand allegiance to flag, to tribe, to the strongman.
We confess:
We have been drawn to
The easy slogans,
The quick blame,
The comfort of belonging to the crowd.
We have watched:
As the demons of populism and nationalism are growing bold,
As fascism whispers old lies in new tongues,
And we have not always spoken,
Not always stood,
Not always remembered your call to love the stranger.
We see the world torn before our very eyes —
battered by the ambitions of empire,
locked in cycles of vengeance and grief,
Lives lost, homes shattered,
Truth twisted.
And so…
We bring to You our lament.
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