Prayer Offered for June 25, 2026

God of present, past, and future, we gather in this present moment to marvel at the mystery of our being.

The poet, Lisel Mueller, in a poem called Alive Together says:

Speaking of marvels, I am alive together with You,

when I might have been alive with anyone under the sun….

Our chances of being alive together are statistically nonexistent;

still we have made it,

alive in a time when rationalists in square hats and hatless [others]

agree it is almost over….

_{(Alive Together, New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller)}

And so gracious God, we ask You to give us the grace to know that we are the ones we’ve been waiting for—

The ones to forge ahead with courage when success is not always evident,

The ones to offer hope when the many are on the brink of despair,

The ones to recognize that love is stronger than fear, indifference, and even death.

And so we give You thanks for Your mysterious presence as we go about “in our inexplicable ways building the future of the golden state and building the universe.”—AMEN.

_{(“We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For” attributed to Elders of the Hopi Nation and “Song of the Builders” by Mary Oliver)}