Prayer Offered for March 10, 2025

Today we pray in gratitude for the California women of the year. The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers,

embodied, and made alive.

They are active, capable, determined….

They have one thousand generations back of them....

Millions of women, dead and gone, are speaking through us today.

And these are the words of Matilda Joslyn Gage from the 1800s.

So loving God, our Father, our Mother, we give thanks for the women of today this day as in this chamber, we honor diverse women for their lives of passionate and dedicated service for the flourishing of their communities. By their determination, patience, and inclusive creativity, and they have modeled how to live lives of integrity and devotion. May all of us be in solidarity with them and with those who continue to live with courage, compassion, and truth as we live out the desires and longings of our mothers, grandmothers, and all our ancestors, those  who struggled for dignity and equality throughout the ages. We ask this in Your name.—AMEN.