Content warning: Trans* Day of Remembrance: Mentions Abuse, Death, Murder, Abuse, Suicide
God
You know that
when your very
existence
is resistance
Then remembrance
is more
than a story
It is a celebration
that Life
is complication
And beautiful
and every time
We remember
Our Trans* siblings
We co-create
A world
Where mourning
and lament
are not it
We re-member
re-connect
re-present
reality
Knowing that
one way
one being
even one name
is not enough
Complicated
mysterious
God-
THE God of Pronouns
The Almighty
Multiplicitious* God
It is You who blesses us
calls us by our chosen name
Blesses our found families
understands the mysterious, complicated way
hurt, imperfections, love all mix up into life
Perhaps more than anyone else
Help us as we do the hard work
of mourning those who have been lost to this world
through the tragedy of violence
Trans* individuals who have been killed by
intimate partners
family
strangers
or if they lose their life yet another way and died by suicide,
We hurt still from all the abuse and death
that is ongoing
Protect especially our Queer
Siblings of Color
We Celebrate their lives
as a testament and Embodiment
Of the Diversity in the World
Knowing, that their living into themselves
Still counted and was important
even when it felt incomplete
Protect especially our Queer
Siblings of Color
Who are particularly vulnerable
Put a shield across them
We demand your care for them
Melt the hearts of hate
For all who do harm
Physical
Political
Emotional
And may we resist forever
Any injustice in the world
Fighting for a Place
Where all are
Accepted
Fed
Safe
Celebrated
Justified
Recognize
and Known
To be
Fiercely and Wondrously made
In the Image of our Multiplicitous God
Amen
*This is a new word, as of today, pronounce it with confidence
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