Gracious and loving God, We gather again to continue the legislative work for the State of California. Inspire each senator to remember daily all those who depend on just and fair legislation, always taking into consideration the needs of the most vulnerable persons in our society. Help all of us to be present to the challenges and opportunities of this moment.
We continue in the words of Jan Richardson:
Now, more than ever, let us be the ones who will not turn away.
Let us be the ones who will go farther into the wreck and deeper into the rubble.
Let us be the ones who will enter the places of devastation beyond belief
and despair beyond our imagining.
And there let us listen for the Spirit that brooded over the formless darkness,
and there let us look again for the God who gathered up the chaos and began to create.
Let us be the ones who will give ourselves to the work of creating again
and to the endless beginning of creation.—AMEN.