Dear Lord,
We are at a
tricky, confused, complicated and yet a risky time of our lives. The leaders of
our country and our state need to take accurate, well-informed and judicious
decisions for the good of its citizens. Give us, O God, leaders whose hearts
are large enough to match the breadth of our own souls and give us hearts broad
enough to follow leaders of vision and wisdom.
Give us
leaders who lead this nation by their personal example and discipline at this
time without seeking to impose a military rule - their kind of virtue on the
virtue of others.
Give us a
government that provides for the care of the poor and elderly and the abandoned
and the daily workers of this country without taking resources from others to
achieve it.
Give us
insight enough ourselves to choose as leaders those who can tell strength from
power, growth from greed, leadership from dominance, and real greatness from
the trappings of grandiosity.
We trust
you, Great God, to open our hearts to learn from those to whom you speak in
different tongues and to respect the life and words of those to whom you
entrusted the good of other parts of this globe.
We ask
these things, Great God, with minds open to your word and hearts that trust in your
eternal care. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
