O Lord,
So much rides on this election,
war,
life,
truth,
honor.
There are those
who would still our voices,
tell us to be quiet,
tell us to turn away,
tell us to die.
And yet we know
that to do your will,
we must take a stand,
and in doing that, we ask your blessing
on this election,
on this president who holds you dear,
on the lives of the unborn
that will be saved
because of the action he takes,
the lives of the innocent
that will be preserved
because of the action he takes
against our foes,
and the lives of the people he will save
by being an example
of an upright man
who loves God.
Help us, Lord,
to be your hands
to do the actions needed.
Help us, Lord,
and protect us
against the darkness
of those who would destroy
all the good
our country stands for.
Amen.
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Also, for your meditation:
Life Too Short for Words
Their small lives,
short,
too short for words
to begin to give them voice
for the shattering moment
which in fear and pain
they were overwhelmed
and pulled into the dark
before their time
by those they were formed to love
but who did not love them back,
a nuiscence to be removed,
a crisis to be resolved,
a bump in the life
to be cut away,
dissolved,
dismembered,
discarded.
No words to describe
the nightmare
except
tissue,
unwanted,
stem cell product,
abortion.
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Prayer:
Into your hands Lord,
do we commend these little souls,
lost through man's inhumanity,
sacrificed on Molech's new altar,
sterile white.
O Blessed Mother,
Hold each of them in your loving hands,
and be the mother they will never have on earth.
Pray for us, little souls,
that we who have such hard hearts
may learn the reality of the evil done,
may be healed of the darkness that would take the life of an innocent,
and choose not the path that leads to death,
but to life eternal.
Amen.
O Lord,
this day we see once again
how the hands of others are raised
in threat to try to put out the light
you have let us be to the nations.
Be with us Lord,
at this time when so much is at stake,
so many lives hang in the balance.
Into your hands, O Lord,
I commend the President, that he may lead us wisely,
I commend to you his staffers, assistants and fellow workers.
those who are working so hard
to see him reelected.
Keep them safe,
fill them with the wisdom
that will let them fullfill your roll for them.
Into your hands, O Lord,
I commend those set apart
to watch over this election
on which so much hangs.
Help those who are striving to enforce the law,
and are committed to justice.
Into your hands, O Lord,
I commend the nation
while threats are made
by those who refuse to see
that striving against the law of the land
in the name of power
will only bring on grief.
Keep us safe from those who would harm us
from abroad,
and at home.
O Lord,
be thou are strength,
and may all of us who love you
be tools for your will,
this day,
and always.
Amen.
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Another Prayer:
For Those Who Do Not Believe
O Lord,
Today I pray for those
who turned their back when you called,
who raised their children
to despise what you stand for,
who cry in the night
when the darkness seems so heavy,
who craves meaning and light
but shutters the windows against the true light.
Have mercy on them, O Lord,
soften their hearts,
and let them realize
that all their posturing,
all their sense of superiority,
all their pretense to high culture
and worldly wisdom
will not save them against the night.
O Jesus,
teach us the way
to bring your light
wherever the darkness dwells.
Now and forever,
Amen.