A Prayer for Post-Election Day
Post-Election Day by Walter Brueggemann
— Prayers for a Privileged People (Nashville: Abingdon, 2008), p. 149.
You creator God
who has ordered us
in families and communities,
in clans and tribes,
in states and nations.
You creator God
who enacts your governance
in ways overt and
in ways hidden.
You exercise your will for
peace and for justice and for freedom.
We give you thanks for the peaceable order of
our nation and for the chance of choosing—
all the manipulative money notwithstanding.
We pray now for new governance
that your will and purpose may prevail,
that our leaders may have a sense
of justice and goodness,
that we as citizens may care about the
public face of your purpose.
We pray in the name of Jesus who was executed by the authorities.
joescheets 
Amen
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When will we pray thank you God for giving us exactly what we have needed. We have replaced you with our hands out; demanding more be given us; to a church that prays for the world inside of our building (safe and secure from the outside-Heaven help us if they start coming inside and really want us to help). What would happen if the only thing about God is printed on our money- kind of humorous as this allows us to purchase all those things that will make our lives easier or better or make the worship of material things so much easier. What is the church really doing for every person to show that Christ is the answer? Can it be that in our small world, our Christ is working just great! Well fed, has a home, has a job, has hospital insurance, has a loving family.
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