Prayer for Equal Dignity

We are all equal as human beings
    Sister and brother
    Employer and employee
    Chief officer and manual laborer
Equally loved before God.

Yet, our system discriminates based on
    Education
    Abilities
    Race
    Luck
And many of God's children are placed into a hierarchy of inequality and discomfort.

We are called to stretch out our arms between the tiny, exclusive tip
and the broad, platform of the masses.

To form a bridge, to create a way
For those made unequal to come together as one in equality, in human dignity.

Loving God, Creator of dignity and all that lives,
    Help us be bridges.
    Help us cry out for respect and value for all
    When society forgets that at in our most basic nature,
    We are all God's children. Amen.

By Jill Rauh, Education for Justice