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We light this candle for Ahmaud Arbery
For his family
For those who know him and love him
For those who murdered him

We light this candle
For all who feel unsafe in their own homes
in their own neighborhoods
in their own skin

We light this candle
For all who are followed because they’re labeled suspicious
For all who are targeted, profiled, and hunted

We light this candle
For all who mourn too many precious lives lost to discrimination and murder
For all who cry out for justice

We light this candle
For all who see themselves as more valuable, more entitled
than other people
For all who see themselves as more human, more worthy
because of their skin driven advantages

We light this candle
For all who are unaware or apathetic

God breathe and birth in us the fullness of your Shalom
Save us
Save all of us
Save us now

Save us and send us
Use our voices
Our connections
Our privilege to end our entrenched national sin of supremacy and racism

No one is Supreme but You

Grant us holy anger and humility
Grant us holy wisdom and determination to speak and act now
And to keep speaking and acting
until your truth, justice, and wholeness are known by all

Until your kingdom come, your will be done
On Earth as it is in heaven

We ask this in the name of the Father,
For this is our Father’s will
We ask this in the name of Jesus,
Son, Savior, Shalom
We ask this in the name of the Spirit,
Who leads us into this new life
Amen

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Prayer: on the murder of Ahmaud Arbery © 2020 Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia
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by Lisa Degrenia (www.revlisad.com)
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