God divine one,
Brigid, Mother of life,
Allah,
Elohim,
the universe itself.

We call on your presence to give us guidance and protection and strength.
Protect those who the world has cast aside
Our LGBTQ siblings
whose love is holy and whose lives are sacred.
Protect their marriages and their families
and their right to exist with dignity.
Let the words of wisdom from the Dhammapada stand against those who seek to harm them.
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

Defend the rights of the women
and those who need reproductive health care.
Let no government, no law, no tyrant,
take away that choice that has been given to them by God.
For we all were given free will.
Let the words of the Qur’an stand against those who want to add to the burden,
and strip away the rights from those people who need this kind of care.
“God does not burden a soul beyond what it can bear.”

Let those who have been stripped of their rights achieve justice
and have those rights restored to them.

Protect the immigrants and those who cross borders in search of hope.
Defend the undocumented, the displaced, the asylum seekers.
May the words of Exodus be a testimony against those who treat the foreigners.
“Do not mistreat foreigners because you were foreigners in Egypt.”
Tear down the walls of white supremacy
and restore the work of diversity, equity and inclusion.
That we might see the image of God in every single person.
Let the words of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King
and the Book of Psalms call to account those who make safe places for racism.
“Let justice roll down like mighty waters and righteousness like an ever flowing stream.”

Turn our governments from oppression to justice,
from enmity to peace.
Let nations work together, not as adversaries.
Grant wisdom to our leaders that they may choose
mercy over violence
compassion over cruelty.
May they remember the words of Jesus:
”Blessed be the peacemakers, because they will be called the children of God.”

O God, who is beyond all names and within all things,
make us instruments of your justice,
vessels of your peace,
and protesters for your love,
May your will be done,
not the will of oppression, but the will of liberation,
not the will of division, but the will of unity,
not the will of hatred, but the will of love.

Amen.
So mote it be,
Insha’Allah.
May it be so in our day.