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# An Election Day Breathing Prayer
- URL: https://www.reyes-chow.com/an-election-day-breathing-prayer/
- Published: 2024-11-04T19:04:41.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-27T04:25:18.000Z
- Description: Claiming a sacred space for ourselves and others
- Author: Bruce Reyes-Chow
- Tags: reflection, prayer, politics, election

For so many, this election season has been weighty and overwhelming. Personal relationships have been damaged, coalitions have been tested, and spirits have been stretched to the brink.

I offer this prayer in the hopes that, over the next few days, we might claim a sacred space for ourselves and others.

#### An Election Day Breathing Prayer

> Inhale: *God, You beckon me forth*  
> Exhale: *Hear my prayers*  
> Inhale: *Prayers for my soul*  
> Exhale: *Prayers for souls around me*  
>  
> Inhale: *Grant me empathy*  
> Exhale: *Grant us justice*  
> Inhale: *Grant me courage*  
> Exhale: *Grant us love*  
>  
> Inhale: *When I don't believe it*  
> Exhale: *I am wonderfully made*  
> Inhale: *When I don't see it*  
> Exhale: *Others are wonderfully made*  
>  
> Inhale: *I may rejoice*  
> Exhale: *Others may rejoice*  
> Inhale: *I may rage*  
> Exhale: *Others may rage*  
>  
> Inhale: *I may grieve*  
> Exhale: *Others may grieve*  
> Inhale: *I may falter*  
> Exhale: *Others may falter*  
>  
> Inhale: *I need grace*  
> Exhale: *Others need grace*  
> Inhale: *You offer grace*  
> Exhale: *May we all accept grace*  
>  
> Inhale: *I have done the work*  
> Exhale: *Others have done the work*  
> Inhale: *We have done the work*  
> Exhale: *There is still work to do*  
>  
> Inhale: *Let empathy be the strength*  
> Exhale: *Let justice be the song*  
> Inhale: *Let courage be the soil*  
> Exhale: *Let love be the season*  
>  
> Inhale: *God, I am here*  
> Exhale: *Hear my prayers*  
> Inhale: *Prayers for my soul*  
> Exhale: *Prayers for souls around me*  
>  
> Amen

I have already said this prayer many times on the election day eve, and I suspect it will be on repeat as I watch local and national election results roll in. I hope it will be helpful to you as well.

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