​God of friends and roommates, coworkers, and co-religionists. and God, still of all of us whose differences still lead us to each other. Allow us to spend this and all of our days with the ones who make our hearts sing. to remind us that we are not what we lack- motherless, fatherless, stranger, alone- and to make a life worth living that is both freely and deliciously chosen so we may be sustained by the family of our own choosing today and all of our days. Amen.

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Prayer (by Devon Spier, lightly edited)