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Friends, let us bless: | |
This is a blessing for the ones who stand up police lines and say: you may invade our communities, you may profile and survielle us you may shoot at our black and brown bodies, but you will never break us. | |
This is a blessing for the ones who lose their homes to predators, who lose their pensions and healthcare, while the wealthy grow wealthier but will never accept that this is simply the way things must be. | |
This is a blessing for the ones who live under the terror of our drones and our bombs, whose blood fills the coffers of our war economy, whose only consolation is the truth that while empires may rise, they are destined to fall. | |
This is a blessing for the ones who stand on street corners, who live in tent encampments next to luxury condos that soar to the sky yet refuse to surrender their humanity to the gears of an inhumane system. | |
This is a blessing for an earth that grows more inhabitable by the day yet is still inhabited by those who struggle for a planet that will provide a sustainable home for their children’s children. | |
This is a blessing for the immigrants who fear every knock on the door every cop that pulls them over, every job application they are handed yet never give up on the dream of a better future for themselves and their families. | |
So let the justice that trickles down shallow creeks roar through the valley and saturate the dry parched earth, let it flow relentlessly throughout the land where life once grew and will grow again. | |
Let those who cry out in pain feel strength growing within their broken souls like green stems shooting through cracked pavement. | |
Let us live to see new life spreading through abandoned streets and neighborhoods and cities and nations and let the promise of transformation beckon still that we might finally take the first tentative step into this new day, yes let it be so. | |
Amen. |
Rabbi Brant Rosen’s “Prayer for the Poor People’s Campaign” was first delivered at the Poor People’s Campaign Rally for Action at Grace Lutheran Church in Evanston on March 22, 2018.
“Prayer for the Poor People’s Campaign, by Rabbi Brant Rosen (2018)” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.
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