O God of life and love,
as we approach World Mental Health Day (October 10)
we know and you know about too many suicides
of Trans women, especially those who are Black,
and too many others who feel no care
or concern from the world.
Help us remember we are each other’s keeper,
indeed caregivers for all the world, human and non-human,
that we all exist by your bountiful creation,
that our lives are linked inextricably
in the divinely inspired
ever-growing and changing web,
that saving a life, preventing a death,
overcoming the pain of futility
of one who is in the depths of despair
is not the work of professionals alone
but an obligation laid on us all.
Help us remember too
that mental health is one of three
conditions for living to the fullness
of what you give us,
that it is as vital as physical health and spiritual health—
indeed the three are intertwined
at the very roots of each soul—
that you, Holy One, call each of us, all of us,
to be witnesses to and protectors of
all life, all love, all health.
PRAYER SUBMITTED BY
REV. DR. ROBIN HAWLEY GORSLINE
is the Writer-Theologian in Residence at MCC of Washington
