MLK’s Prayer (for Ferguson, for All of Us)

O God, make us willing to do your will, come what may. Increase the number of persons of good will and moral sensitivity. Give us renewed confidence in nonviolence and the way of love as taught by Christ. Amen.

— the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., excerpted from Thou, Dear God: Prayers That Open Hearts and Spirits (edited by Lewis V. Baldwin, Beacon Press, 2012)