Are We Tapping Into our Spiritual Resources? -- A Prayer
The Hero-Warrior Prayer
(A Prayer for African-American Men)
by
Virgil Ray Bailey, Copyright 2007

Most powerful, who is present in all of life and death
To whom I owe the ultimate respect, reverence, and praise
I avail my thoughts, speech, and actions back to you
For I am here to know your purpose for me
And serve that purpose
So that I may keep myself and others free

In you I fear nothing but the loss of your grace
A grace freely given, but easily lost
In arrogance, in ignorance, and in wanton violence

Because I live in full awareness of you in me and me in you in every moment
Grace is mine
Thank you for my ability to sense my pain
As fleeting
My hopelessness
As momentary
My fear
As temporary
And my sense of possibilities
As real
My probabilities
As real
My actualities
As actual

I thank you for all the women and men who came before me to make me, me
To bring me to this place
More familiar, but still rife with peril
And for the will, strength, courage and creativity to face evil
And dismantle it from the inside out, a free man
And from the outside in, a free man

I thank you for my mind
I promise to use it
Thank you for my eyes
In order to constantly see old things anew
I gladly reject in this struggle for freedom
What was never really mine – society’s lie of the Black criminal mind
So that I may be born again and again
The Hero-Warrior you created me to be.

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