PRAYER FOR THE LEADERS - MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

PRAYER FOR THE LEADERS

We are experiencing a crisis of leadership now, not

so much because people lack the qualities necessary

for it, but because we systematically invalidate such

qualities. It is hard in today's world for a person

to stand up in excellence and power within the public

realm. There are myriad forces marshaled against

doing so, causing a massive brain and spirit drain

from the realms of worldly power.

Let us support the possibility of greatness, in anyone

at this time. We must rethink our attitudes about

leaders, or at the rate we're going we will soon have

none. We must create the fertile ground for leadership

in order to prepare the way for great leaders.

A politician listens to his or her constituents; a

leader listens to whispers in the wind.

Dear Lord,

We pray for the leaders of this country and every other.

May they not be swayed by false politics but listen

instead to the spirit of truth.

May they not harken to the false and bitter voices of a

frightened world, but instead hear the angels who

minister unto them.

May the world make room for their leadership and resist

no more their growth into greatness.

May their virtue shield them.

May their lack of virtue be forgiven and corrected.

May their words be true.

May their strength go before them, to cut like a knife

through all illusion.

May they see the innocence and brotherhood in those who

oppose them.

May they grow beyond a shallow fight.

And thus we all be taken with them into new light, new

peace, new politics, new hope for all the world.

Amen.