Race
O God,
Thank you for who you in your grace made me to be.
Thank you for who you in your grace made everybody else to be, too. Some of us happen to be black, some brown, and some white. Whatever we look like on the outside, form us on the inside to be people who experience and share love, grace, and mercy and who practice acceptance and understanding.
Protect us from inordinate pride in our skin tone; after all, we had nothing to do with it.
Protect us from the unthinking assumption that everyone should experience life as we do.
Protect us from using our history to excuse our attitudes and actions while criticizing others for doing the same.
Help us to remember—and to talk and act in ways that show we remember—that we are all indeed precious in your sight.
Help us to remember—and to talk and act in ways that show we remember—that we are finally all members of the same race—the human race.
Help us to remember—and to talk and act in ways that show we remember—that what unites us is stronger and more important than what separates us.
Help us to remember—and to talk and act in ways that show we remember—that the road is long and the way is hard and that we really, really need each other as we travel it.
Help us to remember—and to talk and act in ways that show we remember—that you are in the process of bringing all things together in your Son and that as your children we are to contribute to that process.
Let us grow every day in seeing each other as you see us and in loving each other as you love all of us.
Amen.
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