Here is a prayer for those detained and harassed by ICE. It’s also for us who haven’t been directly detained or persecuted, or at least for any of us who take to heart the instruction from the Christ to “love our enemies, and pray for those who persecute” us and our siblings. Which is something we wouldn’t ask direct victims to do, but which we who aren’t directly affected can practice In solidarity with all persecuted people, for the good of the whole world and the peace and restoration of all things.
Divine Love, Universal Consciousness, All That Is:
We pray for those who have been unjustly detained by a corrupt arm of our government.
May they be protected, strengthened, comforted, and liberated.
May they be healed; may they come to thriving, abundance, and a life free from worry.
May they go about their lives free from illegal and unjust detention and harrassment.
May the corrupt plans of masked men claiming to be government operatives
be thwarted at every turn.
May there be an end to the actions of these masked men, and an end to the injustices they perpetrate upon people going about their business in our country.
May this corruption meet a swift end.
May those in power over these organizations quickly realize their error, harm, and bigotry, and turn from evil.
May healing come to those harmed.
Enlarge our ability to practice compassion for these masked agents - compassion for people who’ve been brainwashed by a toxic culture, who have been taught that power is only wielded with weapons and force, and who are perhaps so desperate for a paycheck that they would stoop to terrorizing children.
We do not condone their actions, but we are practiced enough to see the divine spark hidden within even the most corrupt humans among us.
Let the influence of awake and enlivened people get through to them.
May the peace and love we cultivate within ourselves be so potent and contagious and winsome,
that it spreads, even to ICE, even to the fear-mongering politicians behind ICE.
And especially to the victims of ICE.
We know that to rule by fear is to constantly live in fear of losing power - they are scared.
We know that fear won’t win, but love will!
And so we practice our love, over and over, daily with every breath until it is so large within us that encompasses even our enemies and oppressors, even the most distorted and corrupted among us, that it sweeps up their victims in a healing wave,
that it cancels their wrong-doing and restores the harmed to wholeness.
We look forward to the day when ICE raids are again unfathomable.
We look forward to the day that corruption is out of power.
We look forward to the day when all who dwell in this country can live in peace and freedom,
and all who are desperate and needy are satisfied.
That day is coming.
That day lives in us.
Amen