Good Morning, God,
Lord, the headlines are about a group of young people and adults who went to Washington, D.C., to take part in a protest rally aimed at the anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade abortion decision. The point of this prayer, though, is not about the abortion debate, but about thanksgiving for the way these young people are learning about how to stand up for a cause, exercise their viewpoint peacefully, and appreciate the opportunities they and we have in this country to have opinions and share them.
So, we give thanks for our First Amendment rights of free speech and our rights to freely, peaceably, assemble. We give thanks for the opportunity to study different issues and to form opinions and to act on those opinions. We give thanks for adult leaders who explain and demonstrate the right, safe ways to argue issues and make the points known. And, we give you thanks for the principle that we can grow to know how to agree to disagree agreeably.
For all of this, we give you thanks and praise, O Lord.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
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