These prayers, collected starting in July 2011, were brought forth from this post. If you have something you’d like to add please fill out the form at the bottom of this page.
Rev. Fred Small, Senior Minister, First Parish in Cambridge, Unitarian Universalist
God’s love is infinite and all-embracing. God’s love does not discriminate. God’s love does not reject. If you are trans, God’s love holds you tenderly—especially tenderly, because of the challenges you face in a society that is often ignorant and intolerant. You are good. You are whole. You are of God, in God, with God, always. Your soul shines with divine light.
Beloved child of the universe,
You are beautiful.
You are whole.
You are good.
You are sacred.
You are loved.
You are made in the image of Godde.
Rev. Sean Parker Dennison
Spirit of Infinite Love,
Be with me and my people. Help us know that we are loved–wholly and deeply–exactly as we are. Help us know that our faces are a reflection of the face of the sacred, the face of God. Help us understand that our longing to be whole and tell the truth of who we are is holy. Be with us when we are afraid. Be with us when we are proud and joyful. Be with us when we are confused. Protect us from our enemies.Help us transform the world be being ourselves and understanding the deep need for every person to have the freedom, safety, and support to do the same. Help us transform the oppression we face into determination to stand up for ourselves and for any we see also being oppressed. Help us learn to accept our anger when it is necessary and appropriate and to let it go when it is causing harm.
Help us accept and celebrate the diversity in our own community and show the world it is possible to love each other even though we do not always agree. Help us forgive. Help us listen. Help us let go of stubbornness. Let us worry more about being kind than being right.
Spirit of Life that defies labels and will not be made small by small minds, give us courage to live fully and continue to learn, grow, and transform our selves, our communities, and the world.
May it be so. May we be the ones who make it so.
Amen. Ashe’. And Blessed Be.
Your heart, and your soul, have the power to reflect and refract reflect what is good and holy about the world: you are the prism through which the light of the Sacred shines. Please–for the good of yourself, and for the world that so desperately needs you and all of the great gorgeousness you have to offer–let it shine, shine, shine, shine on.
And may you have all of the blessings of this significant offering from the Jewish tradition (Numbers 6:24-26):
May God bless you and keep you. May God shine God’s countenance upon you with grace. May God lift Godliness upon you and bring you peace.
As an Episcopalian, I am truly a person of the book, which is to say that I tend to find and use what’s in the book. Here are the two prayers that resonate most often with me as a queer person, a person of faith, a Christian, and a priest (who spent nearly 30 years discerning toward ordination so I could be out in my ministry)
from Psalm 139
O Lord, you have searched me out and known me :
you know when I sit or when I stand,
you comprehend my thoughts long before.
You discern my path and the places where I rest :
you are acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word on my tongue :
but you, Lord, know it altogether.
You have encompassed me behind and before :
and have laid your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me :
so high that I cannot endure it.
Where shall I go from your spirit :
or where shall I flee from your presence?
If I ascend into heaven you are there :
if I make my bed in the grave you are there also.
If I spread out my wings towards the morning :
or dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
Even there your hand shall lead me :
and your right hand shall hold me.
If I say ‘Surely the darkness will cover me :
and the night will enclose me’,
The darkness is no darkness with you,
but the night is as clear as the day :
the darkness and the light are both alike.
For you have created my inward parts :
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I will praise you, for you are to be feared :
fearful are your acts, and wonderful your works.
You knew my soul,
and my bones were not hidden from you :
when I was formed in secret,
and woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my limbs when they were yet imperfect :
and in your book were all my members written;
Day by day they were fashioned :
and not one was late in growing.
How deep are your thoughts to me, O God :
and how great is the sum of them!
Were I to count them,
they are more in number than the sand :
were I to come to the end, I would still be with you.
Search me out, O God, and know my heart :
put me to the proof and know my thoughts.
Look well lest there be any way of wickedness in me :
and lead me in the way that is everlasting.Collect for Purity
Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of my heart by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that I may worthily magnify your Holy Name. Through Christ our Lord, Amen. (Book of Common Prayer 1979)(I pray this every Sunday morning and every time I vest for worship if I’m not using it as the opening of the service. I’ve also prayed it in many times and places when I felt the need to be more opened to God.)
May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers,
half-truths, and superficial relationships,
so that you may live deep within your heart.
May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression,
and exploitation, so that you may work for justice,
freedom and peace.
May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain,
rejection, starvation and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort and to turn pain into joy.
May God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you may do what others claim cannot be done. Amen.
(This blessing is floating around in the liturgical ether. I first met it through Integrity)
God of Justice and God of Wonder, God of Mystery and God of Holy Delight, here I am, just as I am. Creator and ever-changing abiding Love, sit here with me in my anger and my fear, in my yearning and in my emptiness, in my grief and in my becoming. God, how is it that people stand behind paper cutouts of You and shake their fists and scream their own fear and confusion to try and make me what and who I am not, to take away what you’ve given me that cannot to be taken away: this me that is. Am I not precious also in your sight? In your heart? In your hands? I have wandered through the nights and through the days seeking a place to grow, to flower, to love and be loved among people, to live and to create a life of love, of justice, of wonder, of healing laughter, of all kinds of goodness. I wander and I come to this place, God, my Beloved, in the garden of troubles and in the city of sorrow and in the fields of loneliness. Beloved, still here you are with me. Beloved, give me refuge when the world expects me to be what I am not, when masks are presented and people insist I stop being difficult and just go along with what makes them comfortable and destroys my heart. Beloved, let me just lean my head a while on your knee, hear your song in my spirit, and know that I am with you and you are with me, from the beginning and always, worthy of your love and loved and called to this place and this time to share all I have to give. Alleluia. Amen.
Rev. Chip Roush
Loving God who is beyond all categories, both Mother and Father, and still more yet, Bless us who live beyond categories on earth. Grant us strength and compassion; show us mercy. Teach us to love ourselves and others as you love us. Challenge us when we need it; console us when we want it. Wrap us in your love which is masculine and feminine and full and rich beyond all categories. Bless us and all beings. Amen.
Sunshine J. Wolfe
Oh, Infinite Love, help me face this day…
My heart weeps with fear of violence, of invisibility, of hatred.
Open me to beauty and wholeness, to love and laughter.
I AM enough. We are enough.
I live in the sacred in-between. I embody the connectivity and allness of the Infinite. May I remember that I am inherently sacred by my existence.The earth is filled with magnificent diversity of which I am a small piece. May I remember I am a part of the spectacular beauty of a diverse world dependent on that diversity- my existence- for its survival.
When I feel lost, may I hold to the earth and to community.
When I feel invisible, may I have the strength to shout joyous gratitude from the rooftops for all who have seen me.
When violence is before me, I ask for grace through the next moment.
When I feel connected, may I share my love with those around me.
When I feel seen, my I see others in need.
When I am secure, may I rise up for the security of others.Oh, Infinite Love, I sit within you and shine you out to the world that we may know grace even when we do not live up to our most grounded values. We are life and we are lives worth living and my life is valuable as all lives are valuable.
Oh, Infinite Love, thank you for the gift of the transcendent both, all, And, Infinite, liminal, glue, connectivity. May I rest in that transcendent space today and for all the days to come. aho, amin, ashe.
Rev. Amy Zucker Morgenstern
To all trans and other folk who are hurting and afraid, I wish you peace and happiness. No god worthy of our worship could do anything but love you, and no true church could ever exclude you. I feel very blessed to share this life with you.
The Hindu god Indra is said to have created reality as a great net, with jewels at each intersection of the threads. Every jewel is reflected in every other, and they are all connected by the infinite, intricate web. The jewels are sacred and so is the net that connects them. And so I pray:</i>
Dear God, you are the between-spaces of our lives. Where one hand reaches to touch another, you are there. Where eyes meet across the crowd and confusion and find understanding, you are there. Where the spark leaps from one mind to ignite another, that is you. Wherever we connect, you are the connection.
Each of us is a jewel in Indra’s net, shining like dew in a spider’s web. Praise to you, the web that connects us one to another!
When we are in the in-between, on our way from the intolerable to the unknown–
When we defy the categories that small minds invent and dare to imagine something beyond–
When we seek others who are on a journey, on a threshold, on the margins, any of the shimmering intersections of our lives–
When we listen to the possibilities whispered within and step into mystery, with trust, with fear, with trembling–
may we find peace, for we dwell in your sacred place.
Ellen Carvill-Ziemer
A reading from Scripture: “Then Adonai formed a human out of hummus and breathed into hir nostrils the breath of life and the human became a living being…but for the human no suitable complementary partner was found. Then the Adonai caused the human to fall asleep and Ze took one of hir sides and filled in the flesh in it’s place. Then the Adonai formed a woman from the half Ze had taken from the man.” Genesis 2:7, 20b-21
In the beginning, God made a human from hummus, a human made in Hir own image. The Rabbis tell us this human had no gender—or all genders—just like God. Then God pulled the human apart, from the side, top to bottom, and there were two, male and female as Ze made them. The Scripture goes on to tell us this is why a man leaves his family and cleaves to his wife—that they, together, make a whole. But, not all of us pull apart the same way. Some of us have a piece or two that reminds of the whole we were before. We have a brain or a body or a nagging sense of something lost. In the moments between sleep and waking we remember the wholeness and the dream trails our days and we long to embody that wholeness in our own flesh.
So we pray.
God, God the Avenging Amazon, God the Two-Spirit Shaman walking between worlds.
God—remind us of our wholeness.
Remind us of the gift we are to the world because we remember our wholeness.
Remind us of the days when we were priests and shamans because people knew we were a gift.
Remind us that we are each made in Your image
There are those who have forgotten. Help us to forgive their ignorance.Be with us in our confusion, our grief, and our despair.
Lead us in the Way you have prepared for our feet
Grow in us the faith that we are who You have made us
Give us hope, give us courage, give us strength, give us love.So may it be.
Notes:
This is an accurate translation of the Hebrew from my study of contemporary textual criticism and Rabbinical literature. God does not have a gender in the Hebrew or Christian scriptures and this original human (the word play human/hummus is similar to the word play in Hebrew between Adam and the Hebrew word for ground). But, Hebrew does not have a gender neutral pronoun for God or for Adam. Sound familiar?
Adonai is the Hebrew that is translated into English Lord God.
If you’re stuck in a religious home that cannot study this text in a way that listens for the original meaning of the words, there are religious homes for you—Anglican, Episcopal, United Church of Christ, Reformed Judaism, Unitarian Universalism—there are many of us who strive not to impose modern prejudices on the text nor absorb ancient prejudices into ours, instead looking for the God of liberation.
Joanna Fontaine-Crawford
Our God, whom we call by many names, but who calls each of us “Beloved,”
I come in gratitude for the richness, the diversity, the great abundance of unique souls in this world. Thank you for the very complexity that distinguishes each one of us. May all people find those who will love and accept them, will value their distinctive beauty and spirits. May we each feel the presence of your transcending mystery, may we know that we are part of a process of life that is rooted in divine, emanating love, and may we feel the comfort of knowing that every one of us is cherished by God.
A Friend
Friend, know that whoever you are, wherever you are, you are one of God’s dearly beloved, and that there is nothing in the world that can separate you from God’s love.
Toby
I pray that you feel loved tonight.
I pray that you find someone to joke with.
I pray that you find someone to love you for who you are, what you are and what you may become.
I pray that you find the strength to get up tomorrow.
I pray that you find the courage to speak clearly, even if you are trembling.
I pray that you find the humility to forgive others the unforgivable.
I pray that we’ll meet someday and that I might make you smile.
I pray that you’ll let me love you.
I’m trans, I pray, and I hope you do too. We need it.
Pastor Susan
I am an Episcopal priest with a trans son. . Know that God loves you. Know that God weeps with you in your pain. Know that your place in God’s Kingdom is secure
Kim
Please know there are people in the world who love and support you just as you are – a human being who deserves kindness, love and respect just like every one else.
Jane Spickett
God loves us. We – all of us anywhere on the transgender spectrum – are manifestations of the wonder of creation. Anything less than joyful affirmation of who we are is not enough. So, dear ones, look in the mirror and smile; then call up your trans friends and let them know how grateful you are for them.
The church that does not celebrate you is not the church. Together, loving word by loving deed, we co-create God over and over and over again.
Anonymous
Spirit of creation, attend to us all. Heal our brokenness, comfort our bruised hearts, temper our tongues that we not hurt one another. God is love and love is all-powerful, greater than any hurt or hate or ignorance or shortcoming or even evil thing that we might do, to the earth, to each other, or to ourselves. The love of god is universal, available to us all, not just the ones we deem worthy. Please help me to remember that. Blessed be.
Anonymous
the best thing a person can do for the world is be themselves, honestly, openly- brave and beautiful. by letting your light shine out so that others can feel it gives others the courage to let their light shine too. we are all different, not one of us the same, but we all share a common bond: we want to be loved. the only place to start is with the self. love yourself first, share the beauty.
Ameselle
Whoever you are, that’s who you are. It’s unfortunate that we still live in a time where people who are considered “different” aren’t accepted or welcome to pray/worship/live/love in their own way. But that reality is all the more reason for you to stand up for yourself and be who you are. You shouldn’t have to answer to bullies who think less of you because you were born the way you were. Things will never change for the better if we let ignorance and fear rule our lives. Defying bullies may be scary, lonely, painful; but not being yourself is just as scary, lonely, and painful.
When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don’t be afraid of the dark.
At the end of the storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark.Walk on through the wind,
Walk on through the rain,
Tho’ your dreams be tossed and blown.
Walk on, walk on
With hope in your heart
And you’ll never walk alone,
You’ll never walk alone.
Kristy
I honestly can’t understand why people bother to spend their energy making trans people feel they aren’t accepted. It’s all based on fear, I know, but I so wish they would direct that energy elsewhere. Trans people have more than their share of struggle, so church people more than anyone else should reach out and make them feel welcome. Please know that there are churches and individuals with strong faith who want you to know that God loves you, not just if you’re Trans but because you’re Trans. God knows exactly who you are and loves you for exactly who you are.
Ashlayne
The true Christians I’ve met agree with me; although we come to different conclusions when it comes to theology and philosophy, whatever higher powers there may be will accept people from all walks of life, regardless of skin colour, hair colour, eye colour, mental abilities, physical abilities, emotional abilities, thoughts, beliefs, hopes, dreams, gender, sexual orientation, or anything else I may have missed.
In short, if you’re Christian, you’re allowed to pray*. God loves you. And anyone calling themselves Christian who tells you otherwise is a hypocrite.
*I would like to comment that anybody, regardless of their religion or lack thereof is allowed to pray.
Nancy Palmer
Spirit of Life, we cry out in solidarity with our family, known and unknown to us, walking this earth in fear and loneliness and doubt. Let our love be known to them. Let our open hearts shine for them. Give us the strength and courage to shine brighter and more visibly than those who spew hate. Let us strew love before them.
The road of this life can be so hard. I don’t understand why some spirits find it so necessary to manifest their own fear and pain by hurting others, but I pray that those spirits open to understanding, compassion, healing, and at last peace. Let their hands, hearts, and voices turn from cruelty to acceptance.
Meanwhile, I pray especially for grace and strength for the wounded and lost. Where there is hurting, may there be help. Where there is injury, may there be health. Where there is confusion and loss, may there be peace and the gift of knowing that if any of us is a child of G_d, then we all must be, and that we all are equally loved, equally cherished, just exactly as we are.
Lydia
When I was a Christian one of my favourite songs was “God Loves Everyone” by Ron Sexsmith.
It still is. If there is a god I have no doubt that s/he loves all of us.
Liz RB
If you stopped by this blog looking for answers about whether it is possible to be spiritual/religious/whole if you are transgendered, I want to assure you that it is. I don’t really have the right words myself, but I’d like to borrow from Max Ehrmann’s “Desiderata”
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
…Therefore … whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
Anonymous
I pray that all people who feel alienated by religion find a spiritual home full of love and acceptance. My God or higher power or whatever you’d like to call it does not hate trans people. I don’t believe hate has a place in spirituality. I pray you find comfort, acceptance, and love.
Anonymous
Find peace – you may always pray. It is your right, regardless of how you see yourself.
Loving Creator, beyond our understanding yet closer than our breath, breathe into us your love so that we may love ourselves and others as you do. Help heal the fear, hate, and judgment that wound so many. Help us know, deeply and certainly, that your love transcends all labels, all categories, all words. Your love is. Your love rains down on us all. Everyone is invited to your table. We each bring our whole and broken parts and come together in your love, which binds us and heals us all. Amen.
A Friend
Please don’t be discouraged by the people around you who look at differences as a weakness. Think of all the times in your life that you have chosen the path less traveled. Your determination and commitment to your individualism is intimidating to many. Some hide their intimidation in unpleasant and hurtful ways sometimes through retaliative actions.
Then there are the rest of us. We aren’t perfect. We may say things that rub you the wrong way generally unintentionally and usually out of naivety or curiosity. However, your determination and commitment to your individualism is what ensures the sustainability of this group. Your stories inspire us and remind us to pay forward the gift of finding a loving community in spite of our differences.
Please don’t be discouraged by the people around you who look at differences as a weakness. There are places of worship, religions, and individuals that will love you for who you are, as cliche as that sounds. Not only will they love you, you will make them better with your presence. If you haven’t found that place or person, keep looking… it’s out there.
Abigail Jensen
Having been a student of A Course in Miracles for more than a decade, my favorite prayers come from the Course:
“Holy am I, eternal free and whole, at peace forever in the Heart of Goddess.”
“I am still Goddess’ holy Daughter, forever innocent, forever loving and forever loved, as limitless as my Creator, completely changeless and forever pure.”
(These prayers have been altered from the original by changing them from the second to the first person, i.e., “you” to “I”, and the masculine to the feminine.) Shame has been one of my biggest challenges. These prayers have been so powerful for me because they declare the truth of my innocence as a Child of Goddess and counter shame in all its aspects.
Finally, I will share with you the prayer that eventually led to my own transition. This prayer is addressed to the Hindu goddess Kali ,* she who destroys in order to free us from illusion to see the truth:
“Kali, please remove all that is not real.”
I said this prayer every morning during my time of prayer and meditation for two years. Its effect was not immediate, but I know that, without it, I would not have found the truth about who I am, and be living that truth, today.
*You can read about Kali here: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Kali.
Alexandra
You are exactly who you are supposed to be. It is the rest of the world that needs to change. I will send a blessing out for all of us who strive to be better: Go forth in love. Go forth in peace. May the spirit of Love surround you. We say this every week at my UU congregation.
Steven Rowe
“Are transgender people allowed to pray?” If one prays for strength, for knowledge, for forgiveness, for help in forgiving, for clarification, for peace; then not only are transgender people “allowed ” to pray, they are blessed by praying. And so are we all.
Ashley Horan
A prayer for Trans Day of Remembrance:
Transcending spirit of love and solidarity, presence of compassion and justice, we call upon you to be with us today as we gather here; hearts both heavy with sadness and enlarged with hope and joy.
As we come together in commemoration of these lives that have been so senselessly taken, we are grateful for the names we have spoken out loud today. While much of the world denies the violence committed against these people, we gather today to break the silence and remember together. Even as we mourn the deaths of those we have known and those we never met, we give thanks for the love that these people contributed to the world. Although it is their deaths that bring us together today, we choose to affirm their lives and identities as we remember them.
We send our compassionate thoughts and prayers to the family and friends of those whose loved ones have been killed as a result of ignorance, hatred and fear. May they find comfort and strength as they move forward with their lives.
We also extend our empathy to those individuals and institutions weighed down by the heavy burden of bigotry. While we reject all violence and injustice, we affirm our commitment to work for change in the spirit of love for all, and to meet smallness and hatred with a largeness of spirit.
Although today is a day of mourning the dead, we are gathered here to affirm the power and dignity of all life. We remember and extend our caring embrace all those still living who suffer anti-trans violence in the form of prejudice, healthcare injustices, professional discrimination, incarceration or social exclusion. May we all find the vision and the strength to stand together in compassionate solidarity with one another until the world we live in is the world of which we dream.
May this occasion for remembrance provide us with comfort, healing, and renewed commitment to building communities rooted in love.
Blessed be, Ashé and Amen.
Huushita
God made you and therefore loves you. YOU!!! As YOURSELF!!!
It is other people that are judging you. Stand up, stand tall. And stand proud! Be yourself, despite the adversity.
I love you.
Alicia
Yes, Transgendered people, GOD LOVES YOU! Pray, Pray, Pray, Cry out to the God who created you and knows you best. He loves you, He woes you, and he draws you with loving-kindness. Do not be afraid of the religious world, for the most part they do not have a clue who God is, if so, they would never question the handiwork of God or try to deny you your God given right to seek your creator as your hearts desires.
I love you, but your loving Father LOVES YOU THE MORE.
The church may hate you, discriminate against you, misunderstand you, but there are many people who love you and God is at the top of the list.
LotusBat
I am not eloquent. I am only a Buddhist that wants to give support and love to those who need it.
“Buddhism upholds equality and expounds supreme humanism. All human beings have equal rights. There is no difference whatsoever in their inherent dignity. So no matter what you may face, please live with pride, confidence and courage…. Please be true to yourself and live free, for you all embody the Mystic Law… I am praying from the bottom of my heart for your great happiness, peace and safety.”
— March 8, 2001, Daisaku Ikeda
Lauren
Dear god, goddess, higher being of many names,
I pray that these wonderful, sweet, important individuals find refuge from the hatred people often spew towards transgendered people. I pray that transgendered people find peace and inner healing from the hardships they face for being themselves. I pray that people will began to have more acceptance of transgendered people. I pray that transgendered people and advocates can forgive those who have wronged transgendered people.
Amen, blessed be, om.
Simone
My God, the soul You have given me is pure. You created it, You formed it, and You breathed it into me. As long as the soul is within me, I will thank You, my God and God of my ancestors. Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Sovereign of time and space for having made each of us according to Your will. Spread over us the shelter of Your peace. Shield us from evil; shelter us in the shadow of Your wings; for you are our Creator and our Ruler, the Gracious and Compassionate Sovereign. Safeguard our goings and comings – for life and for peace from now to eternity.
Anonymous
I am not going to preach a sermon. I will not read from a book declared from one god to another, for no god is better than the other. I will tell you that you deserve all the respect, love, kindness, and generosity as others. You are not to be displaced in our society. You are worth so much. Never forget that. Ever.
Desmond Ravenstone
Two millenia ago, there lived a people who considered themselves divinely chosen. They looked down on many who were different, because they regarded those differences as contrary to divine law, and even a form of divine punishment.
Then there came a man, from a backwater town far from the capital, who abandoned his father’s carpentry trade to become an itinerant preacher. And the message he and his followers preached was incredibly radical. They preached that love, rooted in the Divine, was not limited to any group, but boundless.
Samaritans, for example, were especially despised. Yet one of this preacher’s most famous lessons was about how a Samaritan could be more in tune with divine law than any of the highest ranking members of their society. And he even spent time alone with a Samaritan woman, talking with her and accepting her hospitality.
This society was under occupation by a brutal military regime. Yet this preacher once praised the faith of a military commander seeking healing for his slave, saying it was greater than any he’d found amongst his own people.
The preacher was willing to question and challenge the religious authorities of his day, and his following grew. So when he came to the capital city, those leaders conspired to have him arrested, beaten, humiliated and executed. His terrified followers scattered.
And then, remembering his message, they came back emboldened — and they grew.
Now there are billions who claim to follow this man. But how many of them do? How many consider themselves so holy and special, only to fear anyone different as those ancient people did? How many talk about love, but practice hate?
And the more important question for you, my friend: If this preacher were here today, what do you think he would say?
Anonymous
Please, please know that God loves all of his creations, transgender people most definitely included. Don’t let misguided people tell you otherwise. The idea that anyone cannot be religious because of who they are is repugnant to God.
I wish I could offer more, but I pray especially for people (trans, gay, lesbian, etc.) who have been wrongly chased from churches. There are certainly affirming churches
out there who will welcome you with open arms.And I pray for forgiveness for the people who have chased them out.
Loving Grandmother
You may not realize how deeply you are loved, by your family and our savior.
We do not see you as strange or different. We love you for who you are, not what society expects you to be.
Never forget that you are one of God’s children, as we all are.
I pray for peace, comfort, love and joy for you, through out you life.Hold your head up high and know there are many who love and understand you.
V Burton
God of Creation
God of Mystery
God of Biology
There is no creation, no life, that is not “of you”.When you whisper our names,
It is not the name parents said as the doctor discussed parts.
You knew our whole.
You called us, “Beloved.”May we unite as God’s people
no longer hating in Your holy name.
We are called to love, help and even heal our neighbours.
Our neighbours who are working out who they are
Our neighbours who are being who they want to be
Our neighbours who are living who they have always been.As we pray, Loving One, touch us
Open our eyes
Open our hearts
Open our very souls
To see that ALL are Yours.Amen.
PLEASE feel free to share these prayers, individually or as a whole. I’d appreciate if you somehow referenced this blog as where they were found but the only rule is that you credit the writer if you choose to use them in any capacity.
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