[KE CyberTorah] A Prayer Post Election
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A Prayer Post Election
I want to offer a prayer, but before I do that I want to offer compassion. It’s been an agonizing roller coaster of a week. As I write this, results are still coming in and things may not be decided for quite some time. In such an environment, we can find ourselves stressed, worried, overwhelmed. I want to offer that if you want to talk, Rabbi Graff, Sarah Miller, and I are here for you. Just email and let us know if you want some time to be together and be comforted.
I am also wondering if a gathering to heal or be together would have meaning. If you would like something, I’m considering a gathering Wednesday at 5 or 7pm. Please let me know—if there is enough interest we will offer a service of healing and processing to simply hold one another in this time of uncertainty. One person wondered if we ought to have a separate gathering based on political orientation. I’m also open to that if there is interest. Let me know and know that the whole clergy team is here for you no matter who the President is, no matter who controls the Senate or the House. Kol Emeth is and remains a place of celebration, of comfort, and of joy.
A Prayer
Now that the polls have closed, open our hearts.
Now that the election has ended, let this be a new beginning
Grant us equanimity to live with the legal outcomes and a hope for peaceful transitions.
We are tired, spent, anxious.
Remind us that our real hope lies in You, God.
And in Your call to treat every person knowing
They hold in themselves the Divine image.
May the winners and losers find the fortitude to accept
All the legal outcomes; may they reach across the aisle
To foster laws and policies that can best enable peace and health in every State of the Union.
May the next administration dedicate itself to policies
Of Peace and Understanding between all people
With no place for baseless hatred.
Help us join together as one nation,
Neither red nor blue, but American together
Dedicated to the promise of peace, liberty and freedom
That is the founding promise of our nation.
Help we pray this election to pass without violence
And remind us that we are all brothers and sisters, children of Adam and Eve.
So may it be Your will
Amen.