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

[RICHARD HOWIE]

We are Blessed with pray-ers like Gene!  I am forwarding this to our  
church newsletter editor.
Grace and Peace, Ellen
On Feb 3, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Terry Bergdall wrote:

> AMEN!
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:00 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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