(by permission of its author)

“Fervently we ask Thy blessing upon our country and our nation. Guard them from the calamity of hubris and the injury of stupidity. Suffer not their adversaries to infiltrate our national elections but let the glories of true justice and righteousness pervade our society and its institutions. Obviously the wish for wisdom and the just use of power has not been granted to those whom a minority of people have set in authority, the President, his cronies and sycophants, the benighted judges, the cowardly lawgivers and all who have jeopardized our safety and undermined our rights and our liberties. May peace, justice and compassion obtain among all the inhabitants of our land, may authentic religion spread its blessing among us and extricate us from the grip of violence, dishonesty and deceit so that it may be restored to righteousness.”

(By Rabbi Gustav Buchdahl, Baltimore, Maryland, based on the prayer from the Union Prayer Book)