Safety pins and Sanctuaries

Good Evening Dear Family of Love!

Happy You Matter Monday! Welcome to our first week of feeling a dis-ease after the election. Some of  you may not have these feelings but others do. We are trying to find our way back into some kind of equilibrium that means we grieve, take action, and go into a protective mode where we provide sanctuaries and wear safety pins. We are called to become living sanctuaries for everyone who needs them. We must take care of God's family as if they were our own and yes we are members of God's family too. We must provide safe places and spaces for all that make anyone who feels that they are unsafe. We must represent the best not the worst  that society has to offer. We must lay down bitterness and hatred in exchange it for love, unity, and kindness. When someone sees you wearing a safety pin they will know that you are an ally and are willing to be a person who is sanctuary and ready to help, listen, speak truth to power, and take risks to help get our family members out of danger. It won't be easy but God wants us to do this  The Hebrew Scriptures talk a lot about welcoming the stranger and hospitality and we mustn't ignore either one. This is the time where symbolism needs to be sincere and made public. The symbols of safety pins and sanctuaries are the ones that people need the most and yes if we take a good look at the calendar we see the needs for people and places to be sanctuaries so that we don't have to go it alone or feel alone. God made us a family not sitting ducks. 

So let us pledge this night that we will pledge to be people of safety and sanctuary. That when we wear our safety pins we will not wear them as a trendy item but with purpose in making this world a better place for all and that we will indeed Strive for Justice and Respect the dignity of every human being. 


We need to conscientiously and intentionally give ourselves over to being lovers not haters, people who include and not exclude, we need to strive to be at one!  This is what being a holy child and person of God is all about. We are called to live out our lives in a holy manner. Every day when our feet hit the floor we are walking on holy ground. Wherever we walk it is holy ground. Every day is holy. Every living thing is holy. Every person is holy!  Let us strive today by finding common and holy ground. Let's start by pledging to God, Our family members, Our enemies, and ourselves that we will love,  lovingly include, and warmly welcome everyone into our hearts and heart homes.


Let us pray and commit ourselves to the tasks at hand! Before we do let us light a candle in solidarity to be people of sanctuary and safety. 

God help us to commit to each other every day to be mindful that everyone matters.

God help us we pray to commit our lives to the care of all of our family members nearby and far away.

God help us we pray to commit to the equality and well being of all and that we will speak truth to power in solidarity with the marginalized as we remember especially_________.
God help us we pray to commit our Love Energy and Heart Homes to making peace on our streets and through out the world.

God help us we pray to commit  our care muscles in the care of all our family members and especially the least of these and our many family members who are ill in body, mind, and spirit.

God help us we pray to commit our compassion muscles in lovingly supporting our family members who are grieving and having life struggles.

God help us we pray to commit our energy to be good conservationists of your Cathedral of Life.

God help us we pray to commit ourselves to the fight of injustice, being a voice for the voiceless, and speaking truth to power and letting justice roll down.

God help us we pray to commit ourselves to the inclusion of all human beings into our lives and be fully accepting of them as our brothers and sisters. 

God help us we pray to commit our energies in the service of all our family members who are in trouble, danger, escaping tyranny and unsafe nations. 

God help us we pray to commit ourselves to protecting all who labor in factory, farm, and everywhere. 

God we commit ourselves to you, 

God we commit to being Loving towards you, our family members, and ourselves.

God we commit to walk the walk and talk the talk without fear and reservation,

God we commit to speak lovingly towards each other with dignity and respect.

God we commit to get to know our family members from other faith communities as our brothers and sisters.

God we commit to the affirmation that All Lives Matter and All means All and not Some.  
God we commit to enter into daily silence and go deeper to the center to be in communion, conversation, and listening with you and hear with our heart homes and with the necessary Love Energy you Give us.

God we add our additional prayers and thanksgivings now remembering especially__________

Accept these our prayers in name of Jesus the Christ. Amen.


or these!


Dear Jesus, we pray that we may feel the warmth of your love and mercy.
May we be the light and show love and mercy to others and may they feel the warmth that we are giving.

Jesus, help us to learn to be more like you day by day.
May always remember these words:

Prayer of Saint Richard of Chichester

Thanks be to thee, my Lord Jesus Christ,
for all the benefits thou hast given me,
for all the pains and insults thou hast borne for me.
O most merciful redeemer, friend and brother,
may I know thee more clearly,
love thee more dearly,
and follow thee more nearly, day by day.
Amen.

Jesus, we pray that we may be empowered to love, serve, and help the least of these.
Give us courage Jesus, we do not know where to plant our feet and know what to do.

Jesus, help us to be peacemakers so that we may become and be the Children of God.

Jesus, heal and sooth our infirmities that we may rise and serve You and all our family members, as Peter's mother-in-law did. 
Give us the right amount of daily energy to do this.

Jesus, give us grace to see you in the eyes of our enemies, strangers, refugees, immigrants, the least of these and all those with whom there is division. May we sew seeds of love, compassion, mercy.


Jesus, we pray for all the warring areas in Your Father's world especially in the places where you proclaimed  Good News and told us not to be afraid.

Take away all the fear, terror, hate, and mistrust of all of our family members who live in Your homeland and all  of  the prophets, apostles, martyrs, Matriarchs, Patriarchs, Remembering our Abrahamic family members.

Lord Jesus we name before you all those who have requested prayers and we also lay before you all our worries at your feet remembering especially___________

Jesus, may we rise to the challenge of being loving and writing positive, loving, and reassuring posts in social media. We pray that our words may heal not harm. We also pray and pledge that we will speak truth to power and use words that will empower our family members to fight on behalf of the least of these and all those who are recipients of injustice and oppression.

Jesus, we pray for all who mourn this night and we pray especially for those who have died and are dying remembering especially_____________

Jesus we offer all our prayers, thanksgivings, remembrances, and celebrations to you and in your Name we pray. Amen.


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Good Night Loved ones and Family members!  I love you and may God bless you this night and always! Remember tomorrow is Take Care Tuesday. Be mindful of every step you take and take care of yourself so that you may take care of others.


Love, joy, peace, and blessings be always yours!

Sara