Prayer Offered for March 9, 2015

As we celebrate Women's History month, I invite you to listen to the words of Matilda Joslyn Gage, a newspaper founder and editor in the 1800's. She says:
 
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 Audre Lorde, 20th century poet, asks us:
 
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say?...for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.
 
           Loving God, our Father, our Mother, today we thank You for our mothers and grandmothers, who regardless of their circumstances, spoke words of encouragement, love, and truth, to set us on a path of service on behalf of others. Help us, women and men, to break the silences that still hold us captive to fear, intimidation, prejudice, and illogical thinking. May we continue to speak words of courage, compassion, and truth so that those voices still unheard can break out of their captivity for the benefit of our world.─AMEN.