Prayer to make a creative contribution to this world | The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.

O God, we thank you for the lives of great saints and prophets in the past, who have revealed to us that we can stand up amid the problems and difficulties and trials of life and not give in. We thank you for our foreparents, who’ve given us something in the midst of the darkness of exploitation and oppression to keep going. Grant that we will go on with the proper faith and the proper determination of will, so that we will be able to make a creative contribution to this world. In the name and spirit of Jesus we pray.  

As we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his would-be 96th birthday, it’s worth noting the irony of it coinciding with the 60th Presidential Inauguration and the incoming of an administration that doesn’t reflect his vision of equality. This contrast reminds us of the ongoing… pic.twitter.com/sO9p7sIfHw

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