[Ed: Aria Curtis, our Director of Family Ministry, ran this last week in the UUC Family Ministry Newsletter she sends out each week. I am offering it here as well.]

I offer this blessing to myself and to you, adapted from "for when you're tired of broken systems" out of The Lives We Actually Have by Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie:

Spirit of life, I am done with broken systems

Let me harness this anger; channel it into worthy action.

Blessed are we, who choose not to look away.

Empower us to see and name what is broken, what is ours to restore.

Let us find coherent and beautiful alternatives

that foster life, hope, and peace.

Blessed are we who choose to live in anticipation,

of the world we hope to create.