Lord's Prayer Cycle Prayer 2: Your Kingdom Come

Our Father in heaven, 
loving Parent and Creator, 
tender Mother, 
we pray that your kingdom come on earth
as it is in heaven.

Reign over us, Almighty God,
that we may live our lives in service to You
and to each other.
Let us always remember
that You are God, and we are not.

Make us humble, compassionate, and unified,
re-enacting the broadness of God's table of kinship in heaven. 
Let us be dedicated to doing your will
by being a holy people
founded upon mercy and fellowship.

Let us denounce and end the systems of oppression
of which we are a part,
that steal from the poor to enrich the powerful,
that justify the terrorization of the marginalized;
that imprison children and rips apart families
who seek refuge from famine and wars
from which we profit.

Let us instead work to bring your dream for humanity to life,
and demand justice and equity of ourselves
and of our leaders.

Watch over those whose needs we now remember,
especially those we now name.

Amen. 

 --The Rev. Leslie Scoopmire, from my prayer blog