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A prayer written for the people of Washington DC during the Trump administration’s authoritarian push, August 2025.
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God, please be with the people of Washington DC. | |
Protect the most vulnerable, give them the shelter of your peace. Remind them that they are not alone, that we are with them. | |
Bring us a world of everlasting love and togetherness. A world free from authoritarianism, where there are no police, no weapons, no jails, no borders, no hatred. | |
Make this prayer like a pebble in water, a ripple of holiness that reaches across this moment, across this table, this home, this city, and this world. | |
Hear us, so that we may heal our brokenness seven generations back and seven generations forward. Amen. |
This prayer, by Madeline Peltz, was offered after the issuance of the Executive Order entitled “Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia” on 11 August 2025.
“Prayer for Washington DC during Federal Occupation, by Madeline Peltz” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.
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