Prayer Offered for August 17, 2020

Loving and merciful God, today we thank You for the dedication and the endurance of our staff, our legislative family, and the greater capitol community. We ask Your blessing on each one of them as we pray in the words of the poet Jan Richardson:

Blessed are you

who bear the light in unbearable times,

who testify to its endurance amid the unendurable,

who bear witness to its persistence when everything is in shadow and grief.

Blessed are you

in whom the light lives, in whom the brightness blazes—

your heart a chapel, an altar where in the deepest night can be seen

the fire that shines forth in you

in unaccountable faith, in stubborn hope,

in love that illumines every broken thing it finds.—AMEN.

_{(Jan Richardson)}