[Oe List ...] Salmon on Gene Robinson's inauguration prayer

[Nancy Lanphear]

Thanks, Bill, for sending this.

Nancy

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:00 AM, William Salmon <wsalmon at cox.net> wrote:

>  Colleagues:
>     So much has been shared on the closing inaugural prayer, but little or
> nothing has been said about the prayer, offered the night before, by Bishop
> Gene Robinson -- the first Anglican openly gay bishop. You'll remember it
> was   inadvertently left out of the national programming, but later reprised
> on the Washington Mall. Here it is:
>
>     *O God of our many understandings, we pray that you will . . . .*
> *Bless us with tears -- for a world in which over a billion people exist
> on less than a dollar a day, where young women from many lands are beaten
> and raped for wanting an education, and thousands die daily from
> malnutrition, malaria and AIDS.*
> *Bless us with anger -- at discrimination, at home and abroad, against
> refugees and immigrants, women, people of color, gay, lesbian and
> transgender people.*
> *Bless us with discomfort -- at the easy, simplistic "answers" we've
> preferred to hear from our politicians, instead of the truth, about
> ourselves and the world, which we need to face if we are going to rise
> to the challenges of the future.*
> *Bless us with humility -- open to understanding that our own needs must
> always be balanced with those of the world. *
> *Bless us with freedom from mere tolerance -- replacing it with a genuine
> respect and warm embrace of our differences, and an understanding that in
> our diversity, we are stronger. *
> *Bless us with compassion and generosity -- remembering that every
> religion's God judges us by the way we care for the most vulnerable in the
> human community , whether across town or across the world. *
>     Now, can I have an, "Amen?"
>     Pastor Bill
>
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