National Coming Out Day Call to Worship

National Coming Out Day Call to Worship - McKnight

We are present in this place, driven by the rhythms of traffic, radio, and TV; punctuated by ringing phones, beeping alarms, and honking horns. We are awake to the noise, the senseless chatter, which filters what we hear, what we don’t hear and what we don’t want to hear.
In silence we seek You.

We are present in this place, listening to a world where shouts against genocide are trampled under militant feet, cries of children are answered only by the grip of epidemic disease, and walls of indifference mute voices crying out from poverty. We listen now for voices singing out beyond the noise of the middle passage, longing to be free.
In refection we seek You.

We are present in this place awake to the news of gunshots piercing the air with the sounds of destruction. We stand in this place awake to lonely cries from a fence post under a vast Wyoming sky, binding our pride, giving us cause to confess and to cry.
In heartbreak we seek You.

We are present in this place to claim love's way and say no to hate, to celebrate the gift of each sacred child and each beautiful soul. No more closets or aggression, no more harassment or hate.
We your people will work and move
and sing,
loud and proud,
the Gospel of God’s all loving Grace.

In Hope we seek You.