Saturday Prayer – For Women Who Do Not March

Pray for women who do not march today.

Pray for women who are working. Working in hospitals, in restaurants, in police stations, in the store, on the street corner. Pray for women who are not working today, or any day. Pray for women who lack money even to eat, much less travel to a distant city.

Pray for women who do not march today.

Pray for  women who do not march, but move with the crowd just the same – rolling on four wheels instead of walking on two feet. Pray for  women who yearn to march,  whose hearts beat strong for justice, but whose bodies will not carry them all the way.  Pray for women at home, caring for the sick, the elders, the children.

Pray for women who do not march today.

Pray for women who do not march today, because the march does not represent all politics, all moralities, all colors, all expressions. Pray for women who wield power in some other place, some other way. Pray for women who raise their voices, wherever they may be.

Pray for women who do not march today.

Pray for women who are afraid. Afraid of being shamed or violated if they step off the path and into the moving river.  Afraid of their own bodacious, beautiful strength. Afraid because someone told them to be afraid.

Pray for women who do not march today, and pray for women who do.  Pray for women.

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Jennifer Garrison Brownell serves as designated term pastor at First Congregational Church -UCC in Vancouver, Washington.  She contributed to the Revgals book There’s a Woman in the Pulpit and is the author of the not-really-about-a-triathlon memoir Swim, Ride, Run, Breathe: How I Lost a Triathlon and Caught My Breath. She blogs at There Is a River.

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